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 Copy Share Image
The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother. — 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, "I continue… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way. — 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
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
