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“Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.”

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Robert Indiana is an American artist renowned for his iconic Love Symbol. His work blends abstract and representational elements, exploring themes of love, peace, and the universe. more

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Robert Indiana

“Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

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