Robert Gober Quotes

#1. I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

Robert Gober

#2. When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line ... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were.

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#3. For the most part, works of mine are untitled. There was a brief period where I had poetic titles for works, and they're embarrassing now. I think, for the most part, it's not something that I have talent for.

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#4. I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

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#5. You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

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#6. I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

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#7. My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

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