Robert Indiana

“Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades... It's basically a U-turn back to a representational visual reality.”

“Pop is a re-enlistment in the world. It is the American Dream, optimistic, generous and naive.”

“I was a Hoosier, and I will always be a Hoosier.”

“I am a sign painter. I paint signs. I am an American painter of signs.”

“Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.”

“LOVE is a four-letter word, but a four-letter word that is not a dirty word.”

“It was the most blasphemous thing I could do, the most shocking, and the most holy.”

“The 'LOVE' series is my own autobiography.”

“I've been a sign-painter for thirty-five years. The province of the sign-painter is to codify, to abbreviate.”