"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 with cultural institutions."

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Source : "The Way We Live Now: 3-26-00: Questions for Hans Haacke; School for Scandal" by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 26, 2000.

Hans Haacke

#Interesting Quotes #Effort Quotes #Allies Quotes

“Intellectuals ... advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. ... It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.”
“The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.”
“Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance.”
“How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
“I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.”
“Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.”

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