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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.
Carl Andre
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Carl Andre
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 16
Artist
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Land Artist
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Quincy
Massachusetts
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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 never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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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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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
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An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
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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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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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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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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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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 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 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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