Carl Andre Quotes
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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
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You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ..when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.
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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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Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers.
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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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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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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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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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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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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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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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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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The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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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.
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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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I didn't like men, but I liked women.
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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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The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.
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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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New York is dead. It's too expensive.
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I believe that woman are superior to men.