"Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary."
"I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art."
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Source: Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press
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