"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."

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Source : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press

Carl Andre

#Political Quotes #Matter Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.”
“Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.”
“Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.”
“I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.”
“Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.”
“We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.”
“Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.”
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

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