Carl Andre Quotes

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"Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary." ~ Carl Andre

 "A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there." ~ Carl Andre

 "Art is an intersection of many human needs." ~ Carl Andre

 "My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there." ~ Carl Andre

 "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." ~ Carl Andre

 

"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous." ~ Carl Andre

 "Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over." ~ Carl Andre

 "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." ~ Carl Andre

 "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." ~ Carl Andre

 "The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way." ~ Carl Andre

 "If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer." ~ Carl Andre

 "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." ~ Carl Andre

 "My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life." ~ Carl Andre

 "I believe that woman are superior to men." ~ Carl Andre

 "What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street." ~ Carl Andre

 "Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist." ~ Carl Andre

 "You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls." ~ Carl Andre

 "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." ~ Carl Andre

 "Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious." ~ Carl Andre

 "I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it." ~ Carl Andre

 "I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women." ~ Carl Andre

 "I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself." ~ Carl Andre

 "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." ~ Carl Andre

 "I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt." ~ Carl Andre

 "That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol." ~ Carl Andre

 "It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment." ~ Carl Andre

 "You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard." ~ Carl Andre

 "Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment." ~ Carl Andre

 "I never stopped doing what I did as a child." ~ Carl Andre

 "Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good." ~ Carl Andre