Carl Andre

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.

The Aesthetics of Repetition II

The Aesthetics of Repetition II

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all read more

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 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.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general read more

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.