Carl Andre Quotes

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• Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Exclusion, Unnecessary

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• A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Men, Mountain

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Block, Kids, Littles

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• Art is an intersection of many human needs.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Needs, Intersections

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press

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• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Spring, Desire

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Culture, Done

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.30, MIT Press

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• Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

  Carl Andre

  Usage, Turns, Universal

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Artist, Want

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• 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

  Way, Environment, Areas

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Crazy, Artist, People

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• The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

  Carl Andre

  Cutting, Woods, Way

  Carl Andre, University of California, Berkeley. University Art Gallery (1979). “Carl Andre: sculpture, 1959-1979 : May 23-July 1, 1979, University Art Museum, Berkeley”

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• The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

  Carl Andre

  Always Trying, People, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

  Carl Andre

  Block, Sculpture, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Horse, Nice, Progress

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• 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

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

  Carl Andre

  Problem, Complicated, Curious

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

  Carl Andre

  Vermeer, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press

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• I believe that woman are superior to men.

  Carl Andre

  Believe, Men, I Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Artist, Firsts, Used

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• I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

  Carl Andre

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• New York is dead. It's too expensive.

  Carl Andre

  New York, Expensive

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Made, Found, Streets

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• My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Conscious

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