Gober's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. Oh yes! I have couple-goals too. I love to couple myself with- Books, Coffee and Mountains.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#7. 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

#8. My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.

Roy Cohn

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

Robert Gober

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

Robert Gober

#11. I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

Cristiano Ronaldo

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

Robert Gober

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Choose your props wisely.

Kristen Bell

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

Robert Gober