Barbara Kruger Quotes

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

I'm flattered anytime someone has taken enough time to listen to me and make a connection to someone else, honestly.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.

There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

It really takes something for someone to get up the nerve to share the impact you have had on them, and to them, giving you that recognition is liking giving a gift.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

A wise person would never be eager to ask for acknowledgment of his or her contribution.

Am I going to get any credit if I name him?