Barbara Kruger Quotes

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

You make history when you do business.

I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.