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

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary. — Carl Andre

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I came to New York, it was cheap! — Carl Andre

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

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

Art is an intersection of many human needs. — Carl Andre

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out. — Carl Froch

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

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

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

I believe that woman are superior to men. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't benefit by minimizing his accomplishments Andre Ward. — Carl Froch

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

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

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