84 Quotes by Carl Andre

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.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, “I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child.” I think that’s what art is about.

Why carve? It’s a better sculpture that way. I’ll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

I’m afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

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

I didn’t study the piano – the piano studied me.

I’ve never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That’s when you discover yourself.

Isn’t it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

I’m a feminist. I’ve always been in favor of women.