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 exist anymore.
Robert LongoWhen 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 LongoAs an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.
Robert LongoI've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.
Robert LongoI made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects.
Robert Longo