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I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

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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Favors
Feminist
Women
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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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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 had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.
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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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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 didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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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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New York is dead. It's too expensive.
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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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 believe that woman are superior to men.
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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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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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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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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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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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If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
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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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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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