Hans Haacke Quotes
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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There's a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.
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Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.
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Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.
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This is why there is not any artist who takes Internet as the theme. My position is quite the opposite to the current trend of art, but this is exactly why the title of my exhibition is "ART Fahrenheit 451".
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
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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 have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
