“My work is atheistic, materialistic and communistic. It's atheistic because it's without transcendent form, without spiritual or intellectual quality. Materialistic because it's made out of it's own materials without pretension to other materials. And communistic because the form is equally accessible to all men.”

—  Carl Andre

Source: Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology', 1995, p. 107

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