Robert Indiana Quotes

#1. I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

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#2. 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.

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#3. Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril,

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#4. Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

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#5. Pop art is
the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

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#6. I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

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#7. 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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#8. 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.

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#9. I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

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#10. My goal is that LOVE should cover the world.

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#11. Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

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