Robert Gober Quotes

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Art is science made flesh.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.