Carl Andre Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

• Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Exclusion, Unnecessary

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Everyday, Common

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.151, MIT Press

• I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Mean, Needs

• 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.

  Carl Andre

  Art, People, Creative

  "Artists Talks 1969 - 1977". Book edited by Peggy Gale, 2004.

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

  Carl Andre

  Art, Conspiracy, Abstract

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Carl Andre

  Art, Conscious

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