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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.
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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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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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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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 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 believe that woman are superior to men.
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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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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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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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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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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
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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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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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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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