Robert Irwin

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing…

— Robert Irwin

“One day he became conscious that something was following him, a lazy white dog, a bitch with heavy dugs, padded behind him,…

— Robert Irwin

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would…

— Robert Irwin

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens.…

— Robert Irwin

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

— Robert Irwin

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's…

— Robert Irwin

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of…

— Robert Irwin

The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look…

— Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure…

— Robert Irwin

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very…

— Robert Irwin

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and…

— Robert Irwin

“History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors”

— Robert Irwin

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…

— Robert Irwin

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming…

— Robert Irwin

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind…

— Robert Irwin

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is…

— Robert Irwin

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you…

— Robert Irwin

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You…

— Robert Irwin

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

— Robert Irwin

“In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more.”

— Robert Irwin