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
cutting way woods
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
block kids littles
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.
photography art thinking
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.
art people creative
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.
art mean needs
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
publicity
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
moving views point-of-view
We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
art everyday common
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.
political matter conscious
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
block space inward
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.
block way sculpture
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
art conspiracy abstract
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
art artist want
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.
giving sculpture
I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.