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Carl Andre

"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."

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"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."

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Akiroq Brost

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Akiroq Brost

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

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"I see my life in terms of music."

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Akiroq Brost

"Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride."

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Akiroq Brost

"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."

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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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"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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"My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there."
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"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."
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"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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"My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life."
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