Occupation: Artist Birth: September 16, 1935
New York is dead. It's too expensive..
We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it..
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious..
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 art….
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, thes….
That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol..
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary..
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself..
People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law o….
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 o….
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs..
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over..
You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls..
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life..
I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me..
I believe that woman are superior to men..
I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it..
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 a….
If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer..
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….
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street..