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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 Andre

  Art, People, Creative

  "Artists Talks 1969 - 1977". Book edited by Peggy Gale, 2004.

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• Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

  Carl Andre

  Political, Matter, Conscious

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press

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• That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

  Carl Andre

  Alcohol, Mind, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

  Carl Andre

  Feminist, Favors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

  Carl Andre

  Artist, Over You, Discovering Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Country, Law, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

  Carl Andre

  Girl, Mother, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

  Carl Andre

  Drinking, Long, Hanging Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

  Carl Andre

  Thinking, Doubt, Found

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Men, Order, Beats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

  Carl Andre

  Publicity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

  Carl Andre

  Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

  Carl Andre

  Art, Conspiracy, Abstract

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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

  Thinking, Gold, Bars

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I came to New York, it was cheap!

  Carl Andre

  New York

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

  Carl Andre

  People, Limits, Variation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

  Carl Andre

  Drinking, Car, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

  Carl Andre

  Fire, Acres, Soho

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't like men, but I liked women.

  Carl Andre

  Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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."

  Carl Andre

  Hate, House, Bricks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

  Carl Andre

  Children, Artist, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've often stopped working for long periods.

  Carl Andre

  Long, Periods

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Artist, Trying, Environment

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Everyday, Common

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.151, MIT Press

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