Carl Andre famous quotes

03-22-2025

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #Exclusion #Unnecessary
Art is an intersection of many human needs.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #Needs #Intersections
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #Spring #Desire
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
-- Carl Andre

#Cutting #Woods #Way
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #Mean #Needs
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.
-- Carl Andre
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 has an environment.
-- Carl Andre

#Artist #Trying #Environment
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
-- Carl Andre

#Way #Environment
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 not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #Everyday #Common
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #Conscious
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
-- Carl Andre

#Political #Matter #Conscious
We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
-- Carl Andre

#Moving #Views #Point Of View
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 about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #Culture #Done
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #Men #Mountain
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ...when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.
-- Carl Andre

#Art #People #Creative

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