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" Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. "
Robert Indiana
Come
Chapter
First
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" I paint the American scene. "
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" 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
Mind
Always
Years
" I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. "
Robert Indiana
Many
Protest
Art
" 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
Say
Me
Mean
" 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
Life
Mother
Day
" '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
Mistake
Me
Too
" The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip. "
Robert Indiana
Process
Color
Time
" 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
Say
Quality
Painting
" There are only two people in 'Eat' - myself and my favorite cat, Pachiki - and for 40 minutes, I eat one mushroom. "
Robert Indiana
People
Cat
Myself
" My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue. "
Robert Indiana
Dialogue
Art
Soar
" It would be my intention that everybody should have love, and there are a lot of people in the world. "
Robert Indiana
Intention
People
Lot
" I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the Art Institute in Chicago, I simply never became involved in sculpture. I did prints, and I did paintings. "
Robert Indiana
Student
Chicago
Art
" Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril. "
Robert Indiana
Love Is
Love
Peril
" 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
Know
Love
Me
" I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. "
Robert Indiana
Peace
Painting
Long
" There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote. "
Robert Indiana
People
Like
Much
" Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages and pages of articles about Abstract Expressionists, when we came along, we were just not taken seriously at all. "
Robert Indiana
Abstract
Along
Problem
" 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
Faith
Beginning
Drawing
" The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up. "
Robert Indiana
American
Dream
American Dream
" I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. "
Robert Indiana
Art
Pop
Least
" Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees. "
Robert Indiana
People
Trees
Find
" I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject. "
Robert Indiana
Love
Poetry
School
" 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
Time
Think
Important