Barbara Kruger Quotes

For me, it's always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.

I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

There are a few chances in life where you get to take a different road. I think it's important to stay creative, look at the moment, and look at the future.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.