Despite the snarkification of our culture thanks to the likes of Gawker, Perez Hilton, and Simon Cowell, its hard to improve upon Barbara Kruger’s biting feminist witticism. So why try?

This piece, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981, is currently on view in The Pictures Generation show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other gems on display include I Can’t Look at You and Breathe at the Same Time, 1981-84, and It’s a Small World, But Not If You Have to Clean It, 1990.