Art Quote by Carl Andre

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

— Carl Andre

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

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

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

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

— Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

— Carl Andre

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

— Carl Andre

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

— Carl Andre

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

— Carl Andre

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

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

— Carl Andre