Carl Andre Quotes
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People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
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It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.
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What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
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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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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
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By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.
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I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."
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If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.
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I didn't like men, but I liked women.
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.
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I believe that woman are superior to men.
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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
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I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.