Carl Andre Quotes

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

I don't enjoy art.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.