Quotes by Carl Andre

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
• I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
• 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.
• Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
• My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
• A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.