Quotes by Robert Longo

Robert Longo

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

Failing

Grew Up

Mean

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

Artist

Intention

Viewers

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

Art

Lasts

Long

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.

Firsts

Interesting

Mark

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.

Art

Differences

Philosophy

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.

Artist

People

Thinking

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

Dying

Easy

Way

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.

Art

Want

Way

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

Hate

Want

Wife

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.

Drawing

Giving

Jealous

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Bizarre

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Bullshit

Challenges

Children

Cities

Culture

Degrees

Differences

Done

Drawing

Dust

Dying

Easy

Ebb And Flow

Enough

Epic

Failing

Firsts

Forgotten

Giving

Great Things

Grew

Grew Up

Guardian

Hate

Hero

Ideas

Intention

Interesting

Issues

Jealous

Lasts

Life And Death

Long

Looks

Make Sense

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Quotes by Robert Longo

Robert Longo

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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