“. . .one of my early constructions, which used to be in the collection of Philip Johnson—. It was a slim, very stern, very solemn little construction with almost no application of any particular artistic ingenuity. It’s a very prim, pure kind of piece called LAW. Well, for me it had all kinds of—. On Coenties Slip I was arrested for washing my windows on Sunday, you see. And so at that particular time I had very bad feelings about the law and the kind of injustices that underprivileged people in New York enjoy.” –Robert Indiana
Excerpt from Donald B. Goodall, “Conversations with Robert Indiana,” in Donald B. Goodall, Robert L. B. Tobin, and William Katz, Robert Indiana. Exhibition catalogue (Austin: University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, 1977)
