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I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject. Robert Indiana
Love Writing School High High School Poetry Mainly Since Concerned Course Been Subject Endless Theme Ever
You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story. Robert Ingpen
You Personality Become Possible Above Part Put Head Story Your Servant Illustrator
If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back. Robert Irwin
Good You Will Painting Seconds Back Eye See Some Brought Perfect Take Red How Up Square Green Want Hold Place Really Paint Works Strategically Away
Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density. Robert Irwin
You Light Air Totally Look Without Density Just Whenever Basically
When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking. Robert Irwin
You Walk Fall Before Thinking Instantaneously Make Mostly Sure Going Hole Mean Room Even Assess Aware
Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane. Robert Irwin
Long Before Hurricane Only Like Were After Us Standing Cockroaches Things Here
We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree. Robert Irwin
People World Degree Every Would Some Argue Instant Although Form Aware Actually
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities. Robert Irwin
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Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy. Robert Irwin
Human Being Long Perception Situation Energy Every Side Our Our Lives Ability Only Involvement Qualities Practical Quantify Understand Exist Human Essentially Being Them Acquiring Therefore Lives Play Keeps
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. Robert Irwin
Time Gardening Long Long Time Back Projects Has-Been Minor Architects Take Had Observation Around Got Been Huge Very Very Long Time Role Goes Famous Them Gardener Seat
Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue. Robert Irwin
Time Great You Become Every Every Time Addict Final Way Immediately Something Pursue Make Am Question Questions Which Raises Need Set
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel. Robert Mankoff
Life Time Topic Follow Cartoonists Cartoons Given More Idea Over Like Comic How Quickly Than Any Form Create Cycle Many Novel
One of the first comic things you do is imitate. Robert Mankoff
You First Imitate Comic Things
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them. Robert Mankoff
Me Editing Own Stage Believe Other Humorists Out Cartoonists Through Stuff Editor Go End Get Just Whether Which Them Internal Professional Need
I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons. Robert Mankoff
Funny You Communicate Important Think Medium Laugh Cartooning Cartoons Some Absolute Through Idea Know Most Also Most Important Thing Important Thing Just Really Should Foundation Hardest Thing Things Extent
There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context. Robert Mankoff
You Humor Own Group Appropriate Way Say Would Share Perfectly Within Around Context Private Friends Close Just Public Social Certain Social Group Your Certain Things Whom Right Things
There are no cartoons about happy marriages. Robert Mankoff
Happy Marriages Cartoons About
Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong. Robert Mankoff
Needs Cartoon Wrong Each Right Amount
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist. Robert Mankoff
Me People Made Become Cartoonist About Particular Upbringing Often Anything Ask
Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had. Robert Mankoff
Humor Field Something Had Understood Levels Early Playing Playing Field
The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A. Robert Mankoff
You Humor Logic About Something Both Interesting Interesting Thing Thing
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste. Robert Mankoff
Truth Truth Is People Humor Will Some People Nothing Everything Bad Would Would-Be Find Some Bad Taste Between Most Audience Line Offensive Taste Which Your
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert. Robert Mankoff
Would Would-Be New Like Most Concert Rock Occurred Offensive Yorker New Yorker Chris Chris Rock Ever Thing
I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes. Robert Mankoff
Ways Cartoon Finding Cartoonists Supplement Bank Interested Incomes Founder
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation. Robert Mankoff
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Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes. Robert Mankoff
Life Fruit Changes Cartoons Ideal Studying Like Make Because Short Short Life Them Cycle Use Flies Large Biologists Hereditary
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