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.
fire sweatshops would-be
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.
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.
complicated problem curious
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
cutting way woods
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
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.
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 spring desire
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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.