The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for… — 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
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
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