Barbara Kruger Quotes

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

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.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.