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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.
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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Visual Artist
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Quincy
Massachusetts
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I believe that woman are superior to men.
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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
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Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
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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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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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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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If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
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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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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
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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 mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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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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