Gober Quotes

#1. Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

Raf Simons

#2. If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

Morley Safer

#3. Love can't be stolen without willing participants.

Jon Jones

#4. Longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: "that God governs in the affairs of man." And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

Peter Marshall

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

Robert Gober

#6. There are moments in which all of us need to have a backbone and feel that we have the right to say no to adults if we believe they are doing the wrong thing. You must find your voice and not be afraid to speak up.

Jaycee Dugard

#7. I honestly don't think you do, at least not completely. Look, you will always hold a special place in my heart, but I can't keep competing for a battle that's already won.

Rebecca Gober

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

Robert Gober

#9. Perhaps
the insight came suddenly
perhaps love existed in its truest, deepest form when one partner saw into the sul of the other and never shrank from what was discovered there.

John Jakes

#10. When she smiled at me, just for a moment she looked a little like Annabeth. Then like this television actress I used to have a crush on in fifth grade. Then ... well, you get the idea.

Rick Riordan

#11. might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword,

Herman Melville

#12. Richie Beirach Trio

Haruki Murakami

#13. No one had told me that the tax of playing big will be having to play big all the time. At first I chased my dream for me. Now I chase my dreams as a service for humanity. When I do so, people dare to chase their own dreams. They look up at me and get motivated to play big.

Iman Refaat

#14. every time someone watches one of their (Kardashian) shows, a book commits suicide

Sonia Koso

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

Robert Gober

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

Robert Gober

#17. Another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time.

Mitch Albom

#18. 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.

Robert Gober

#19. There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.

David Nabarro

#20. I know you don't want to be me. But I'd hate for you to ever feel like you're in my shadow. You're not and you never will be. You are awesome, and there is some kind of amazing future waiting for you.

Gwenda Bond

#21. 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.

Robert Gober

#22. 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

#23. Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

Hans Christian Andersen

#24. The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

E.L. Doctorow

#25. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to carry the world. So you need to get it off your shoulders before you break your back. (From Night Marchers book 2 coming soon.)

Rebecca Gober