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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Carl Andre

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Carl Andre
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 16
Artist
Illustrator
Land Artist
Poet
Visual Artist
Writer
Quincy
Massachusetts
Carl André
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I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.
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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.
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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
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I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
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I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish.
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I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
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I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.
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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.
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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?
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We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
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You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.
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If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
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Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.
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