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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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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I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.
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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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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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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
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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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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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I didn't like men, but I liked women.
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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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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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I believe that woman are superior to men.
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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 never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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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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When I came to New York, it was cheap!
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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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The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.