“I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.” DoneRealizingPaintingProtestVogue Author:Robert Indiana
“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.” YearsMindDifferentHouseNumbersTwentiesFascinatedTwenty OneSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Robert Indiana
“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.” ThinkingLongPoetryPaintingArchitectureFamous ArtistPop ArtSingle Relationship Author:Robert Indiana
“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” YearsChildrenArtStillsTodayFiveSixTechniquePencilsExposureWorkshopsSix Year OldsCrayon Author:Robert Indiana
“Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.” Love IsDangerousCommodityPeril Author:Robert Indiana
“Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.” LongArtTwoEndsBigsEyeLastsYoungTurnsProcessCreativeSpringLogicPopsDecadesHungryPainterIceAtmosphereAbstractBoredomGloriousCreative ProcessCreamIce CreamExaltedNewbornHamburgersSodaFinalityPinnacleCoca ColaExpressionismSaturationAbstract ExpressionismCream Soda Author:Robert Indiana
“I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.” ThinkingWayIdeasEnoughSpiritualGenerationsConceptsNo IdeaThemeSculptureHippie Author:Robert Indiana
“Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.” PeopleTreePaintingPaintMeaningful Author:Robert Indiana
“Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!” ArtDreamArt IsPopsOptimisticGenerousAmerican DreamNaivePop Art Author:Robert Indiana
