American - Artist | September 12, 1928 -
There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.
Robert Irwin
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Gardening always has been an art, essentially.
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It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.
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There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.
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Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.
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To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
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The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
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For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.
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If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.
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We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.
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Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.
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I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.
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