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.
Carl AndreI was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
Carl AndreA man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
Carl Andre