By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

- Carl Andre

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

- Carl Andre

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

- Carl Andre

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.

- Carl Andre

I've often stopped working for long periods.

- Carl Andre

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

- Carl Andre

I didn't like men, but I liked women.

- Carl Andre

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

- Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

- Carl Andre