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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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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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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Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.
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Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.
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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
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That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.
