The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a bo…

- Robert Longo

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.

- Robert Longo

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

- Robert Longo

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

- Robert Longo

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't…

- Robert Longo

My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting th…

- Robert Longo

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

- Robert Longo

I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessari…

- Robert Longo

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of …

- Robert Longo