Carl Andre Quotes
- Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
- My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
- A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
- 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…
- We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
- Art is an intersection of many human needs.
- Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
- My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
- 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…
- A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
- It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism…
- By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.
- I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.