Barbara Kruger quote: "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."

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei...
BARBARA KRUGER

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds...
BARBARA KRUGER

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ...
BARBARA KRUGER

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi...
BARBARA KRUGER

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what...
BARBARA KRUGER

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere...
BARBARA KRUGER

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
BARBARA KRUGER

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins...
BARBARA KRUGER

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER

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

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER

I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be ...
BARBARA KRUGER

I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validati...
BARBARA KRUGER

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they h...
BARBARA KRUGER

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand ...
BARBARA KRUGER

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards...
BARBARA KRUGER

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the...
BARBARA KRUGER

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with o...
BARBARA KRUGER

I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - bu...
BARBARA KRUGER

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for cer...
BARBARA KRUGER

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, ...
BARBARA KRUGER

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement tha...
BARBARA KRUGER

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi...
BARBARA KRUGER

I have no complaints, except for the world.
BARBARA KRUGER

I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images ...
BARBARA KRUGER

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - obj...
BARBARA KRUGER

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

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm workin...
BARBARA KRUGER

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took...
BARBARA KRUGER

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focu...
BARBARA KRUGER

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page o...
BARBARA KRUGER

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

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most imp...
BARBARA KRUGER

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is look...
BARBARA KRUGER

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.&#...
BARBARA KRUGER

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in comme...
BARBARA KRUGER

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means w...
BARBARA KRUGER

I've always been very tied to language.
BARBARA KRUGER

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become histor...
BARBARA KRUGER

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of ...
BARBARA KRUGER

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're ...
BARBARA KRUGER

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.
DIANE KRUGER

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
DIANE KRUGER

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express em...
DIANE KRUGER

I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going ...
DIANE KRUGER

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like be...
DIANE KRUGER

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious bec...
DIANE KRUGER

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a tim...
DIANE KRUGER

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scotti...
DIANE KRUGER

I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai...
DIANE KRUGER

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca...
DIANE KRUGER

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i...
DIANE KRUGER

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware ...
DIANE KRUGER

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional s...
DIANE KRUGER

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
DIANE KRUGER

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big...
DIANE KRUGER

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.
DIANE KRUGER

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of ...
DIANE KRUGER

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school....
DIANE KRUGER

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, c...
DIANE KRUGER

We need to realise and be aware of the processes and procedures being followed in the importing coun...
ANTON KRUGER

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.
DIANE KRUGER

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and be...
DIANE KRUGER

Lou's been terrific. He's so effective when he's hitting that mid-range jumper. If you crowd him, he...
LON KRUGER

We are pleased that South Africa has been declared avian influenza free, although we still have to r...
ANTON KRUGER

The EU will follow suit if it is satisfied with the quality [of South Africa's ostrich meat products...
ANTON KRUGER

They're starting to grow up and take ownership.
LON KRUGER

Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulativ...
DIANE KRUGER

We are pleased that local consumption has increased from 5% to 25% since August 2004.
ANTON KRUGER

We are grateful to local consumers for their increased consumption of ostrich meat, which expanded t...
ANTON KRUGER

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a Worl...
DIANE KRUGER

The ban was only on meat, live ostrich and fertile eggs that can be hatched.
ANTON KRUGER

There's a little gap there for (Terry) to try to sneak into, and he didn't quite get it done. ... Fo...
LON KRUGER

Our members tell us [the truces] have been successful. In the early campaigns we found that the call...
BOB KRUGER

The Business Software Alliance is offering business and organizations a special opportunity to ensur...
BOB KRUGER

Many companies are under pressure to keep their costs down, but they don't steal their office furnit...
BOB KRUGER

One of the reasons this happens is that people don't fully appreciate that what they're doing could ...
BOB KRUGER

The audit tool is really designed to tell you what software programs you have installed on you compu...
BOB KRUGER

We really are about trying to get business to simply add software management to their corporate chec...
BOB KRUGER

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the tale...
DIANE KRUGER

We want athletic big guys. We're not going to bring someone in who's a stationary post player.
LON KRUGER

As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the perf...
ISABELLA KRUGER

He lifted me off the ground by my jaw,
DANIEL KRUGER

It's interesting to look at, but I wouldn't make an inference about what to do in a relationship bas...
DANIEL KRUGER

If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software, ... Otherwise there's no...
BOB KRUGER

Criminal prosecution and penalties provide deterrence in a way that civil judgments cannot,
BOB KRUGER

I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.
DIANE KRUGER

I was surprised and shocked. We had Lou, Heath and Slaughter, then we figured we had to pick two oth...
LON KRUGER

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I hav...
DIANE KRUGER

Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and Wes...
DIANE KRUGER

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.
DIANE KRUGER

The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.
EHREN KRUGER

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
DIANE KRUGER

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
DIANE KRUGER

We had hoped to keep playing and we're disappointed to not be in. But given the new selection proces...
LON KRUGER

I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.
DIANE KRUGER

I'm not a snob.
DIANE KRUGER

If women are complaining about how men are in relationships, they should think about the hanging fly...
DANIEL KRUGER

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.
DIANE KRUGER

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with whe...
DIANE KRUGER

This is an incredible opportunity for Rachel to explore another aspect of volleyball. She has natura...
JANICE KRUGER

I haven't had a lot of time to watch a lot of my former players coach, but when I do, it's always a ...
JANICE KRUGER

He loved the game and always did whatever he could do to get the edge. He worked with me a lot and w...
JANICE KRUGER

I think that anytime you reach any type of milestone like that, there are so many factors that play ...
JANICE KRUGER

A lot of things do stay the same over the years. But there are also a lot of things that are differe...
JANICE KRUGER

I think I love the energy in the gym,
JANICE KRUGER

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, ...
EHREN KRUGER

I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of '...
EHREN KRUGER

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so f...
EHREN KRUGER

I've worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they're...
EHREN KRUGER

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.
EHREN KRUGER

He's shooting the ball really well for them.
LON KRUGER

I think it's a very balanced league, one that's up for grabs.
LON KRUGER

We can't keep taking one step forward and one step back. It's important that we build on what we did...
LON KRUGER

I thought we shot it well and finished and made good plays.
LON KRUGER

That was a big momentum changer. We didn't get a body on him.
LON KRUGER

We had some good looks, but we probably needed to go inside more.
LON KRUGER

They turned it up at the start of the second half and we didn't handle it well. We needed to be a li...
LON KRUGER

No question that when Louis makes his free throws, it helps everything. He's going up to the line be...
LON KRUGER

I told you not to judge a book by its cover.
KARI KRUGER

They just think it's fun.
KARI KRUGER

They seem to like it. They like that they're the first to see their book.
KARI KRUGER

We are a government-funded incubator. We support and help start business in the downstream chemical ...
JOE KRUGER

She inches closer so we’re practically sharing the same air. Maybe we are, because I’m light-hea...
KAT KRUGER

It was not the Fall of Adam, therefore, that set God’s agenda; it was the decision to share the gr...
C. BAXTER KRUGER

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER

In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS

I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER

You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER

Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER

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.

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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.

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