"Artists and art institutions have to learn how……" — Hans Haacke
"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 it."
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Hans Haacke
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14 Quotes by Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke has 14 quotes on this site.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such…
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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…
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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…
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip…
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate…
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There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared…
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It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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