Carl Andre Quotes
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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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Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
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New York is dead. It's too expensive.
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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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What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
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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 was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
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I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
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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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My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.
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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 believe that woman are superior to men.
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I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.
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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 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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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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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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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.
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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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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.
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