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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.
Carl Andre
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Carl Andre
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 16
Artist
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Quincy
Massachusetts
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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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I believe that woman are superior to men.
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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'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
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Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
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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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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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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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If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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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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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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