The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before. Robert Longo More Quotes by Robert Longo More Quotes From 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 own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work. Robert Longo painting black-and-white interesting You make the work for yourself first and the next line is the people you trust, and you know that they're going to tell you what they feel. They let you know if you're dishing bullshit or if it's real. Robert Longo bullshit real people I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating. Robert Longo life-and-death issues thinking I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects. Robert Longo wall ideas art Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas. Robert Longo squares play art The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype. Robert Longo ebb-and-flow artist successful I can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them. Robert Longo wife hate want 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. Robert Longo mark interesting firsts I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten. Robert Longo realizing enough forgotten
