Carl Andre

I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and read more

I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.

That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.

That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose read more

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.

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.

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.