"It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions."

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Source : Hans Haacke (2016). “Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke”, p.15, MIT Press

Hans Haacke

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“when theres a will theres a way”
“Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient peÂ cheurs; les autres peÂ cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.”
“When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.”
“Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.”
“The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.”

Source : Interview with Milena Canonero, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.
“This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brotherâ€™s crazy. He thinks heâ€™s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why donâ€™t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess thatâ€™s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know theyâ€™re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.”
“Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?”
“You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms”

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