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Carl Andre quotes: Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

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

Carl Andre quotes: Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Carl Andre quotes: I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Carl Andre quotes: The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

Carl Andre quotes: Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

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

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

Carl Andre quotes: Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

Carl Andre quotes: Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.

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

Carl Andre quotes: We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

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

Carl Andre quotes: I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

Carl Andre quotes: What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Carl Andre quotes: Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

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

Carl Andre quotes: I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

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

Carl Andre quotes: Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

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

Carl Andre quotes: 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.

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 quotes: When I came to New York, it was cheap!

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

Carl Andre quotes: New York is dead. It's too expensive.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Carl Andre quotes: I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Carl Andre quotes: Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Carl Andre quotes: You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

Carl Andre quotes: I've often stopped working for long periods.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

Carl Andre quotes: That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

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

Carl Andre quotes: Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

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

Carl Andre quotes: My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

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

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

Carl Andre quotes: Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

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

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

Carl Andre quotes: Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

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

Carl Andre quotes: A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Carl Andre quotes: I believe that woman are superior to men.

I believe that woman are superior to men.

Carl Andre quotes: You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

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

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 quotes: I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ... "

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ... "

Carl Andre quotes: I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

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

Carl Andre quotes: I didn't like men, but I liked women.

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

Carl Andre quotes: I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

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

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

Carl Andre quotes: What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Carl Andre quotes: I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Carl Andre quotes: I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.