All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

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 Quote

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

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 Kruger Quote

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

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 Quote

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

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.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

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.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

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.
- Barbara Kruger Quote

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 Quote