Hans Haacke Quotes

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• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves…
• Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand…
• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for…
• I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New…
• Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are,…
• There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick'…
• What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have…
• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per…
• The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.
• If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the…
• It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of…
• An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no…

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