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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?
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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Writer
Quincy
Massachusetts
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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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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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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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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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I believe that woman are superior to men.
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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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New York is dead. It's too expensive.
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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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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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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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