Robert irwin

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...

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...

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than...

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.

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

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...

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing,...

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.