Author

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

From Robert Irwin

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

From Robert Irwin

The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature.

From Robert Irwin

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

From Robert Irwin

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

From Robert Irwin

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.

From Robert Irwin

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

From Robert Irwin

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

From Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

Notable Quotes

Authors with Similar Views

James Turrell

Robert Delaunay

Andrew Weil

Claude Monet

David Hockney

Authors with Opposing Views

Abel Korzeniowski

Ayn Rand

David Brinkley

Elle Macpherson

Harlan Coben