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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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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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That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.
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I've often stopped working for long periods.
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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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If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
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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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I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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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'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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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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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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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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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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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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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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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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Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessity of painting.. .His stripes are the paths of brush on canvas. These path leads only into painting.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
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All I'm doing is putting Brancusi's 'Endless Column' on the ground, instead of in the sky. Most sculpture is priapic with the male organ in the air. In my work, Priapus is down on the floor. The engaged position is to run along the earth.
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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
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I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way by carving it.