top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Cultural quotes
"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."
Explore more quotes by Barbara Kruger
"I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty."
"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."
"I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed."
"As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up."
"Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans."
"I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed."
"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."
"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in."
"Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity."
"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."
bottom of page