"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."
-Barbara Kruger
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"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.“
-Barbara Kruger
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"I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race."
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"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."
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"Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways."
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"I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Winston Churchill
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
-Auguste Rodin
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
-David McCullough
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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