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.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.
Carl Andre
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.
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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
Carl Andre
That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty one has to impoverish one's mind.
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