Carl Andre
Carl Andre
Carl Andreis an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworksto more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space. In 1988, Andre was tried and acquitted in the death of his wife, artist Ana Mendieta...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth16 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
art exclusion unnecessary
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
art needs intersections
Art is an intersection of many human needs.
art culture done
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.
always-trying perfect 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?
art men mountain
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
art spring desire
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
way environment has-beens
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
children
I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
crazy artist people
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.
alcohol mind wonderful
That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
artist trying environment
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.
artist wonderful lost
Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.
art conscious
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.