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.
Hans Haacke
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
Viggo Mortensen
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.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma
I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?
Omar Khayyam
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
Bayard Taylor
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
Gerald Massey
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.
Hans Haacke
