84 Quotes by Carl Andre

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

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.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

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 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.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

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