Carl Andre Artist Quotations

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

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

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.

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

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.

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