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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
Illustrator
Land Artist
Poet
Visual Artist
Writer
Quincy
Massachusetts
Carl André
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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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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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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 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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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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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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Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
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I believe that woman are superior to men.
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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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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 mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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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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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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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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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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