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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.

– Robert Irwin

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.

– Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

There’s no way to really mock up or simulate what I’m doing until I’m there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

– Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.

– Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

– Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you’re even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there’s not a hole you’re going to fall into, but mostly you’re not even aware of what you’re thinking.

– Robert Irwin

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.

– Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

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

– Robert Irwin

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.

– Robert Irwin

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.

– Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

– Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they’ll be here long after us. They’re the only things standing after a hurricane.

– Robert Irwin

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