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Art Quote by Carl Andre

“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.” quote by Carl Andre — Download Open image

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

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When I came to New York, it was cheap!

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

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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

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