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The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.
- Robert Indiana
#Color
#Painting
#Process
#Simple
#Time
The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.
- Robert Indiana
#American Dream
#American
#Ending
#Look
'LOVE' bit me. It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake. It became too popular; it became too popular.
- Robert Indiana
#Love
#Marvelous
#Me
#Mistake
#Terrible
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
- Robert Indiana
#Chapter
#Come
#First
#Many
#Moby Dick
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.
- Robert Indiana
#Art
#Back
#Children
#Today
#Work
The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.
- Robert Indiana
#Me
#Painting
#Sometimes
#Words
#Work
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
- Robert Indiana
#Always
#Before
#Mind
#Numbers
#Old
I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at the time she was alive. I consider my tributes to him my most important works.
- Robert Indiana
#Alive
#American
#Best
#Important
#Time
There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.
- Robert Indiana
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#Like
#People
#Popularity
#Who
When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect.
- Robert Indiana
#Direction
#Gone
#Painting
#Quality
#Work
I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.
- Robert Indiana
#Born
#Know
#Love
#Me
#People
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
- Robert Indiana
#Find
#Love
#More
#Painting
#People
My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.
- Robert Indiana
#Art
#Dialogue
#Dive
#High
#Soar
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
- Robert Indiana
#Art
#Artists
#Least
#Pop
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
- Robert Indiana
#Art
#Done
#Protest
#Realize
#Vogue
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
- Robert Indiana
#Art
#Being
#Long
#Painting
#Peace
'Hug' is my mother's word for affection.
- Robert Indiana
#Affection
#Hug
#Mother
#Word
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