Carl Andre Quotes
I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.
Andre, Carl. "Carl Andre with Phong Bui." The Brooklyn Rail, June 2014.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. The Congressmen who voted for Prohibition in the next century had not read or believed this quotation of Twain’s.
Carl Andre is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks [such as Stone Field Sculpture, 1977 in Hartford, Connecticut and Lament for the Children, 1976 in Long Island City, New York], to large interior works exhibited on the floor [such as 144 Magnesium Square, 1969], to small intimate works [such as Satier: Zinc on Steel, 1989 (shown below) and 7 Alnico Pole, 2011].