Art Quote by Carl Andre Download Open image “Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.” — Carl Andre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Exclusion Unnecessary
Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about. — Jonathan Lethem 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
