American - Artist | September 13, 1928 -
'Hug' is my mother's word for affection.
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.
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It would be my intention that everybody should have love, and there are a lot of people in the world.
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There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.
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I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject.
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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to drive my father to work in Indianapolis, and I would see, practically every day of my young life, a huge Phillips 66 sign. So it is the red and green of that sign against the blue Hoosier sky. The blue in the 'Love' is cerulean. Therefore, my 'Love' is an homage to my father.
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My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.
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There are only two people in 'Eat' - myself and my favorite cat, Pachiki - and for 40 minutes, I eat one mushroom.
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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
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I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
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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.
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