Being a good Hans Haacke student part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.
I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism not being able to see one's face not being able to have some sense of communication in that way is for many societies a challenge.
I think like everybody else in New Hampshire when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50 I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development a record of Experience whose legitimate office is to perfect the life a legible language to those who will study it of the majestic mistress the soul.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately you rape it.
At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Hungary is in a word in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty a war of legitimate defence by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.