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“My works have always been unjoined. People were always making…” quote by Carl Andre — Download Open image

“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.”

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When I came to New York, it was cheap!

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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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