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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.
Carl Andre
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Carl Andre
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 16
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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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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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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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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 didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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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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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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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'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
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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?
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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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