Robert Longo

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or…

— Robert Longo

My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image…

— Robert Longo

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

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death…

— Robert Longo

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

— Robert Longo

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…

— Robert Longo

Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.

— Robert Longo

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…

— Robert Longo

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their…

— Robert Longo

I can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them.

— Robert Longo

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

— Robert Longo

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the…

— Robert Longo

Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental…

— Robert Longo

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

— Robert Longo

As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make…

— Robert Longo

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting…

— Robert Longo

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

— Robert Longo

Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has…

— Robert Longo

I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another.…

— Robert Longo

You make the work for yourself first and the next line is the people you trust, and you know that they're going…

— Robert Longo

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of…

— Robert Longo

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous…

— Robert Longo

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

— Robert Longo

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he…

— Robert Longo