Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. – Barbara Kruger
Id always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. – 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. – Barbara Kruger
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. – Barbara Kruger
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller