Robert Indiana Quotes

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

I love art. It is uplifting.

Artists need to express.

Magic is my paint.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

Art is spiritual.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.