Barbara Kruger Quotes

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.

I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I think I look more like me than my father's daughter now.

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

I know what my identity is.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

For after all we make our faces as we go along.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.