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Carl Andre Quotes

You could own coins but you couldn’t have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard Picture Quote #1

I mean, art for art’s sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one’s needs Picture Quote #1

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change Picture Quote #1

I’ve never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That’s when you discover yourself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! Picture Quote #1

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous Picture Quote #1

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist Picture Quote #1

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life Picture Quote #1

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary Picture Quote #1

Art is an intersection of many human needs Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We don’t have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there Picture Quote #1

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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I mean, art for art’s sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one’s needs Picture Quote #1

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You could own coins but you couldn’t have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard. (Carl Andre Quotes) I mean, art for art’s sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one’s needs. (Carl Andre Quotes) Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change. (Carl Andre Quotes) I’ve never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That’s when you discover yourself. (Carl Andre Quotes) 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. (Carl Andre Quotes) 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 ... (Carl Andre Quotes) Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! (Carl Andre Quotes) A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous (Carl Andre Quotes) Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist (Carl Andre Quotes) My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life (Carl Andre Quotes) Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary (Carl Andre Quotes) Art is an intersection of many human needs (Carl Andre Quotes) By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I’m interested in (Carl Andre Quotes) The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way (Carl Andre Quotes) 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 (Carl Andre Quotes) We don’t have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it (Carl Andre Quotes) 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 (Carl Andre Quotes) A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there (Carl Andre Quotes) My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there (Carl Andre Quotes) 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 (Carl Andre Quotes) I mean, art for art’s sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one’s needs (Carl Andre Quotes)