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… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
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.… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
