Even if the effort is bound to fail you still commit completely. It is the commitment that counts for something.

- Dario Robleto

Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

- Dario Robleto

Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I'm sure this is true …

- Dario Robleto

As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from …

- Dario Robleto

I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be not just someone observing these tiny pockets of people on t…

- Dario Robleto

To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the artist's hand so much in the pro…

- Dario Robleto

To understand something changing form as a destructive act is a very modern, Western gut reaction to things, and I get it. But what I'm suggesting is…

- Dario Robleto

I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is invit…

- Dario Robleto

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

- Dario Robleto