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I paint the American scene.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Paint
Scene
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'Hug' is my mother's word for affection.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Affection
Hug
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I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Art
Architecture
Pops
Artists
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My goal is that LOVE should cover the world.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Goal
Should
World
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Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Commodity
Love Is
Peril
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Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Commodity
Fraught
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Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!
Robert Indiana / Artist
Art
Dream
Optimistic
Pops
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Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Chapter
Moby
Moby Dick
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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Art
Done
Painting
Realizing
Exactly
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The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.
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American Dream
Folly
Ending
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There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Exclusive
Popularity
Remote
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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Art
Poetry
Long
Painting
Thinking
Poem
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Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Meaningful
Paint
People
Tree
Some People
Trees
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It would be my intention that everybody should have love, and there are a lot of people in the world.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Intention
Everybody
Love World People
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There are only two people in 'Eat' - myself and my favorite cat, Pachiki - and for 40 minutes, I eat one mushroom.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Cat
Minutes
Favorite
Mushroom
Two People
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'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 / Artist
Marvelous
Mistake
Terrible
Became
Popular
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My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.
Robert Indiana / Artist
Dialogue
Exaltation
Simultaneous
Soar
Disciplined
Dive
High
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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 / Artist
Color
Edges
Geometric
My Time
Technique
Actual
Dates
Slip
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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 / Artist
Nasty
Love Me People
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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 / Artist
Concerned
Endless
Theme
Mainly
Subject
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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 / Artist
Disappointed
Drawing
Lines
Red
Syria
Obama
Beginning
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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 / Artist
Different
Fascinated
House
Mind
Numbers
Seventeen
Twenty One
Years
Before
Old
Each
Number
Houses
Seventeen Years
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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 / Artist
Art
Children
Years
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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 / Artist
Exposure
Pencils
Workshops
Crayons
Forth
Right Back
Techniques
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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.
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Alive
Painter
Time Best Important
Best Time Important
Consider
Recently
Stein
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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 / Artist
Institute
Painter
Sculpture
Art Myself Never
Prints
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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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Hippie
Spiritual
Thinking
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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 / Artist
Abstract
Articles
Critics
Pages
Adored
Extent
Major Problem
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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 / Artist
Quality
Aspect
Fixed
Painting
Portraits
Since
Allegorical
Course
Direction
Heads
Images
Immediately
Rigid
Shall
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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 / Artist
Active
Aspect
Fifty
Formal
Messages
Might
Painting
Percent
Words
Work Me Painting
Less
Certainly
Contain
Total
Fascinates
Work Me Words
Shall
Verbal
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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 / Artist
Blue
Homage
Sky
Life Love Work
Practically
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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.
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Art
Eye
Spring
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