Carl Andre Quotes
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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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Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers.
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What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.
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People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.
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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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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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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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I didn't like men, but I liked women.
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The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
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I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.
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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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The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.