Latest Carl Andre Quotes from Interviews

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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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  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

• 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

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

  Carl Andre

  Artist, Over You, Discovering Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I believe that woman are superior to men.

  Carl Andre

  Believe, Men, I Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

  Carl Andre

  Feminist, Favors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

  Carl Andre

  Drinking, Long, Hanging Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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."

  Carl Andre

  Hate, House, Bricks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've often stopped working for long periods.

  Carl Andre

  Long, Periods

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Carl Andre

  Problem, Complicated, Curious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Country, Law, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Thinking, Gold, Bars

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

  Carl Andre

  Thinking, Doubt, Found

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

  Carl Andre

  Believe, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

  Carl Andre

  Fire, Acres, Soho

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

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

  Carl Andre

  Usage, Turns, Universal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

  Carl Andre

  People, Limits, Variation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

  Carl Andre

  Publicity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Carl Andre

  Block, Space, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com