I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
Barbara KrugerIt's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.
Barbara KrugerI work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
Barbara KrugerMoney talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
Barbara KrugerI remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand peopleโs marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you havenโt crashed the codes, and if you donโt know what it is, you feel itโs a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel itโs fraud.
Barbara Kruger