Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary. Carl Andre More Quotes by Carl Andre More Quotes From Carl Andre What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life. Carl Andre block littles kids A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. Carl Andre mountain men art My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. Carl Andre desire spring art Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over. Carl Andre usage turns universal 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 areas environment way Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks. Carl Andre sculpture block way 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 done culture art If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer. Carl Andre vermeer ifs 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. Carl Andre crazy artist people 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 always-trying perfect people The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way. Carl Andre woods cutting way I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art. Carl Andre photography art thinking 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 An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do. Carl Andre artist want art My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. Carl Andre conscious art Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. Carl Andre political conscious matter Art is an intersection of many human needs. Carl Andre intersections art needs I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt. Carl Andre doubt found thinking I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about. Carl Andre children art thinking I've often stopped working for long periods. Carl Andre periods long
