Carl Andre ,quotes

You could own coins but you c...

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

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If you're any good as an arti...

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

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People are always trading the...

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

The world is imperfect, and y...

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

A man climbs a mountain becau...

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

It seems with progress you ga...

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

I didn't like men because the...

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 can beat him up ..."

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

I grew up in a brick house. W...

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 bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

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We don't have a single point ...

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

I didn't study the piano - th...

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

The wood was better before I ...

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

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

I was never good at painting....

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

My works have always been unj...

My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

I never drove a car in my lif...

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

I was hanging out and drinkin...

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

If you forge a Carl Andre, it...

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

The girls you picked up from ...

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

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

I've never been a representat...

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Carl Andre 10.08.2025 20:53:29 67 quotes

I was hanging out and drinking...

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

Carl Andre 03.03.2018 03:03:03 67 quotes

I've often stopped working for...

I've often stopped working for long periods.

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