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 cult…

- Hans Haacke

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

- Hans Haacke

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…

- Hans Haacke

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

- Hans Haacke

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 psy…

- Hans Haacke

In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations…

- Hans Haacke

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

- Hans Haacke

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

- Hans Haacke

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

- Hans Haacke