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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.
Carl Andre
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Carl Andre
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 16
Artist
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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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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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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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I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
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New York is dead. It's too expensive.
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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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I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.
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I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
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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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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.
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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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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.
Carl Andre
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
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It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.
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