Robert Gober Quotes

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

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

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 mystery of life or life in general.

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