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Carl Andre

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

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What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

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A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

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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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Art is an intersection of many human needs.

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Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

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The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for. " I have no idea about its authenticity.

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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

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Suppose whether or not someone tells me a lie depends only on whether he wants to, but he is morally indifferent, he doesn't care much about the truth or about me, and his self interest, which he worships, tells him to lie, and so it comes about that given his psychology, it is a forgone conclusion that he will lie to me. I think in this case he is still blameworthy, and that implies, among other things, that he did something he ought not do.

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