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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
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Writer
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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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
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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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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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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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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've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
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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 stopped doing what I did as a child.
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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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Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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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 believe that woman are superior to men.
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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New York is dead. It's too expensive.
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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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