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Robert Indiana
American
Artist
About the author
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
Robert Indiana,
American
Artist
#Years
#Old
#Mind
#Numbers
#Houses
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
Robert Indiana,
American
Artist
#Protest
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Robert Indiana,
American
Artist
#Artists
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
Robert Indiana,
American
Artist
#First
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
Robert Indiana,
American
Artist
#Love
#People
#Painting
#Trees
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana,
American
Artist
#Being
#Peace
#Painting
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.
Robert Indiana,
American
Artist
#Right
#Work
#Art
#Children
#Years
#Today
#Old