I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten. Robert Longo More Quotes by Robert Longo More Quotes From Robert Longo An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long. Robert Longo lastslongart 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 than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture. Robert Longo degreesdrawingthinking It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust. Robert Longo paintingdrawingdust An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience. Robert Longo viewersintentionartist 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 it. Robert Longo make-sensedonelooks I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessarily want to address, but it seems like it's screaming at me to pay attention to it. Robert Longo addresseswantattention The artist has to be a guardian of the culture. Robert Longo guardianartistculture 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. Robert Longo differencesphilosophyart 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 I'm always looking for the next thing. Robert Longo nextanswerstrying 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 it doesn't exist anymore. Robert Longo citiesmenculture There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was. Robert Longo artistherosuccess A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too. Robert Longo failinggrew-upmean 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 grewepicage 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. Robert Longo jealousdrawinggiving Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going. Robert Longo dyingeasyway 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. Robert Longo artistpeoplethinking 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. Robert Longo wantwayart The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me. Robert Longo bizarreblackprocess The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant? Robert Longo artistchallengesinteresting It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it. Robert Longo ableplaychildren
