“The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.”
Source: Carl Andre: sculpture, 1959-1979 : May 23-July 1, 1979, University Art Museum, Berkeley
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Famous Carl Andre Quotes
“That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.”
“The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.”
“Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.”
“I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.”
“Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?”
“Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.”
“Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.”
“If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.”
“Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.”
“My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.”
Source: Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
Source: Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
“We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.”
Source: Carl Andre: Sculpture 1959-78 : Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 17 March - 23 April 1978
“Art is an intersection of many human needs.”
Source: Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
Source: Cuts: Texts 1959-2004