--- title: "Barbara Kruger Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Barbara Kruger delivers a punchy critique, pointing out that her only complaint is the world itself. Read all 13 quotes by Barbara Kruger on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Barbara Kruger quotes 1. > I have no complaints, except for the world. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Barbara-Kruger/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") ## Also attributed 1. > I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better. 2. > I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. 3. > I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space. 4. > Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear. 5. > I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. 6. > It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. 7. > Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. 8. > Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. 9. > I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. 10. > I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. 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