Carl Andre
Carl Andre
Carl Andreis an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworksto more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space. In 1988, Andre was tried and acquitted in the death of his wife, artist Ana Mendieta...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth16 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
art people creative
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ...when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.
political matter conscious
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
alcohol mind wonderful
That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
complicated problem curious
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
crazy artist people
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.
cutting way woods
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
way environment has-beens
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
vermeer ifs
If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
always-trying perfect people
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 culture done
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 spring desire
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
children artist littles
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
art men mountain
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
art needs intersections
Art is an intersection of many human needs.