“All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative whi...” — Barbara Kruger Quote

“All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.”

“If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.”

“I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.”

“Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.”

“I've always been very tied to language.”

“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.”

“The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.”

“I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.”

“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.”

“Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.”

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”

“Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.”