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.

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.

I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going read more

I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.