Carl Andre Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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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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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
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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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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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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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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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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.
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An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.