I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the my…

- Robert Gober

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

- Robert Gober

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

- Robert Gober

Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but who.. As if the gutter, misunderst…

- Robert Gober

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

- Robert Gober