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.
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
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
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Art is an intersection of many human needs. - Carl Andre
Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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
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.
I've often stopped working for long periods. - Carl Andre
I've often stopped working for long periods.
When I came to New York, it was cheap! - Carl Andre
When I came to New York, it was cheap!
I didn't like men, but I liked women. - Carl Andre
I didn't like men, but I liked women.
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. - Carl Andre
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. - Carl Andre
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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