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 men mountain
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
art needs intersections
Art is an intersection of many human needs.
art exclusion unnecessary
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
art conspiracy abstract
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
artist over-you discovering-yourself
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
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.
artist wonderful lost
Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
usage turns universal
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
people variation pieces
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.