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

Robert Gober

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

Robert Gober

#4. Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Robert Gober

#6. I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances.

Jason Robert Brown

#7. Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.

Paul Ryan

#8. It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Charles Simmons

#9. Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let people bring you down now, you'll never know how high you could climb. And you owe it to yourself to try.

Michelle Madow

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

Robert Gober

#11. "Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. 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

#13. Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Phil McGraw

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. This marriage is no one's business but our own.

Bobby Darin

#18. I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate.

Harold Lederman