Quotes by Robert Longo - Page 1

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.
Robert Longo / Painter
Artist
Culture
Guardian
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An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.
Robert Longo / Painter
Art
Lasts
Long
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I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.
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Enough
Forgotten
Realizing
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An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.
Robert Longo / Painter
Artist
Intention
Viewers
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A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.
Robert Longo / Painter
Failing
Grew Up
Mean
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Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.
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Dying
Easy
Way
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The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.
Robert Longo / Painter
New York
Great Things
Night
Shows
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I can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them.
Robert Longo / Painter
Hate
Want
Wife
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I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.
Robert Longo / Painter
Age
Epic
Grew
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The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?
Robert Longo / Painter
Artist
Challenges
Interesting
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When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.
Robert Longo / Painter
Done
Looks
Make Sense
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The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.
Robert Longo / Painter
Bizarre
Black
Process
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I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll take either way.
Robert Longo / Painter
Art
Want
Way
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It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.
Robert Longo / Painter
Drawing
Dust
Painting
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And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand.
Robert Longo / Painter
Firsts
Interesting
Mark
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If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.
Robert Longo / Painter
Men
Cities
Culture
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I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.
Robert Longo / Painter
Answers
Next
Trying
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It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it.
Robert Longo / Painter
Able
Children
Play
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There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.
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Success
Artist
Hero
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I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.
Robert Longo / Painter
Jealous
Drawing
Giving
Paper
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I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.
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Issues
Life And Death
Thinking
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You make the work for yourself first and the next line is the people you trust, and you know that they're going to tell you what they feel. They let you know if you're dishing bullshit or if it's real.
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Bullshit
People
Real
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The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype.
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Artist
Ebb And Flow
Successful
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I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessarily want to address, but it seems like it's screaming at me to pay attention to it.
Robert Longo / Painter
Addresses
Attention
Want
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One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.
Robert Longo / Painter
Black And White
Interesting
Painting
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My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.
Robert Longo / Painter
Degrees
Drawing
Thinking
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Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to hold all these different things. It is the form of understanding that is best suited for the contemporary time.
Robert Longo / Painter
Art
Differences
Philosophy
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As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.
Robert Longo / Painter
Artist
People
Thinking
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I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects.
Robert Longo / Painter
Art
Ideas
Wall
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Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.
Robert Longo / Painter
Art
Play
Squares
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