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American painter and sculptor (d. 2018), Birth: 13-9-1928
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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana

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Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!
Robert Indiana

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Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
Robert Indiana

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My goal is that LOVE should cover the world.
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Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.
Robert Indiana

Similar Authors: Winston Churchill Francis Bacon John Ruskin Leonardo da Vinci William Blake Henry Miller Pablo Picasso Vincent Van Gogh Ai Weiwei Andy Warhol Alan Moore David Hockney Henri Matisse Samuel Richardson Robert Genn
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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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Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.
Robert Indiana

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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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Quote Topics by Robert Indiana: Art Years Thinking Spiritual Children Eye Realizing Meaningful Pops People House Long Numbers Goal Commodity World Optimistic Hippie Spring Painting Done Tree Architecture Poetry Peril Should Love Is Dream
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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.
Robert Indiana

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I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Robert Indiana

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