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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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
I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.
Carl Andre
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 Andre
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
Carl Andre
That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty one has to impoverish one's mind.
Carl Andre
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