Hans Haacke Art Quotations
Hans Haacke Quotes about:
Art Quotes from:
- All Art Quotes
- Sun Tzu
- Oscar Wilde
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Jerry Saltz
- Gerhard Richter
- Pablo Picasso
- William Shakespeare
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Susan Sontag
- Seth Godin
- Henri Matisse
- Rajneesh
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Henry David Thoreau
- John Ruskin
- Bruce Lee
- Andy Warhol
- Samuel Johnson
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New York Quotes
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 York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
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Exhibitions Quotes
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' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
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Issues Quotes
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 curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.