"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 art's sake."

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Source : "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Hans Haacke, 1998.

Hans Haacke

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Example Quotes

“I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you win playing like this it's twice as satisfying. I've always played attacking football: my footballing ideals are very clear and well defined. I've grown up at Barcelona with that style and that's the one I like. I think it's good to win like that, by taking the initiative right from the off.”
“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense”
“Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.”
“The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.”
“Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.78, Taylor & Francis
“I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.”

Source : William Langland (2015). “Piers Plowman”, p.59, Booklassic
“The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.118, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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