Carl Andre Quotes
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.
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I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
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In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
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The conqueror and king in each of us is the . . . Knower of truth. . . . Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
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That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.
