Barbara Kruger Quotes
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
Quotes to Explore
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.
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When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.
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Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.
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If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
