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Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

Carl Andre
Artist, Wonderful, Lost
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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Carl Andre
Piano, Study
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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

Carl Andre
Block, Space, Pieces
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I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

Carl Andre
Giving, Sculpture
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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Carl Andre
Art, Mean, Needs

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Carl Andre
Moving, Views, Point Of View
Carl Andre (1978). “Carl Andre: Sculpture 1959-78 : Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 17 March - 23 April 1978”

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