I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.Carl Andre
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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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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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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