84 Quotes by Carl Andre

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.

That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.

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.

Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.

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.

I’ve often stopped working for long periods.

We don’t have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.