Paintings Quotes by Robert Indiana

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

— Robert Indiana

It would be my intention that everybody should have love, and there are a lot of people in the world.

— Robert Indiana

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…

— Robert Indiana

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril,

— Robert Indiana

'Hug' is my mother's word for affection.

— Robert Indiana

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

— Robert Indiana

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

— Robert Indiana

There are only two people in 'Eat' - myself and my favorite cat, Pachiki - and for 40 minutes, I eat one mushroom.

— Robert Indiana

I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a…

— Robert Indiana

I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at…

— Robert Indiana

The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.

— Robert Indiana

When I was a kid, my mother used to drive my father to work in Indianapolis, and I would see, practically every day of…

— Robert Indiana

'LOVE' bit me. It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake. It became too popular; it became too popular.

— Robert Indiana

The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.

— Robert Indiana

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

— Robert Indiana