Carl Andre Quotes

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

The artist is called a creator.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Normal people do not create art.

I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.