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Hans Haacke has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a…
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example…
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents…
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in…
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There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work…
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in…
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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing…
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The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.
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If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other…
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I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could…
— Cindy Sherman
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New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
— Sol LeWitt
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Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
— Eli Broad
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It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art…
— Donald Judd
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,…
— James Keller
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I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the…
— Donald Fagen
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society,
— Ai Weiwei
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The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality…
— Paddy Johnson
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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
— Tom Stoppard
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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why…
— Charles Saatchi
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,…
— John Green
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I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.
— Bruno Tonioli
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