I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like,… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time.… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother. — Carl Andre Copy Share
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue… — Carl Andre Copy Share
I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you… — Carl Andre Copy Share
An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought… — Carl Andre Copy Share
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street. — Carl Andre Copy Share
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. — Carl Andre Copy Share
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way. — Carl Andre Copy Share
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share
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… — Carl Andre Copy Share
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who… — Carl Andre Copy Share
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 Copy Share
