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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m a little disappointed in what’s happened. I’m beginning to lose faith in Obama. This Syria thing is ridiculous. He should not be drawing red lines. Robert Indiana Read Quote
There are only two people in ‘Eat’ – myself and my favorite cat, Pachiki – and for 40 minutes, I eat one mushroom. Robert Indiana Read Quote
My art is a disciplined high dive – high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual… my dialogue. Robert Indiana Read Quote
When I was a kid, my mother used to drive my father to work in Indianapolis, and I would see, practically every day of my young life, a huge Phillips 66 sign. So it is the red and green of that sign against the blue Hoosier sky. The blue in the ‘Love’ is cerulean. Therefore, my ‘Love’ is an homage to my father. Robert Indiana Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip. Robert Indiana Read Quote
