Carl Andre quotes
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“Art is an intersection of many human needs.”
-- Carl AndreSource : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press
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“My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.”
-- Carl AndreSource : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press
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“The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.”
-- Carl AndreSource : Carl Andre, University of California, Berkeley. University Art Gallery (1979). “Carl Andre: sculpture, 1959-1979 : May 23-July 1, 1979, University Art Museum, Berkeley”
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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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“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 AndreSource : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press
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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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“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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“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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“My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.”
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“Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.”
-- Carl AndreSource : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press
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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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“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 AndreSource : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.30, MIT Press
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“A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.”
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“You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ...when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.”
-- Carl AndreSource : "Artists Talks 1969 - 1977". Book edited by Peggy Gale, 2004.
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