我认为费城的《爱》是一个高潮。对我来说，最高潮的时刻可能是在1971年11月29日至1972年1月5日期间，在中央公园对面的广场酒店看到《爱》的时候。它对人们的影响是立即而自发的。人们简直无法抗拒地爬进、绕过、覆盖着爱。当然，这并不是那么愉快，因为斗牛士钢是一种非常脆弱的媒介，会受到擦伤、涂鸦等等的严重影响。但对我来说，那是一次非常令人满意的经历。很明显，每个人都热爱着这个爱。

罗伯特·印地安纳

苏珊·伊丽莎白·瑞安（Susan Elizabeth Ryan），与罗伯特·印地安纳的采访，1991年1月13日，《罗伯特·印地安纳：言语档案1987-2005》。

I say the Philadelphia LOVE was a high point. Probably the highest for me was to see the LOVE in Central Park across from the Plaza Hotel [November 29, 1971–January 5, 1972]. And its effect on people was immediate and spontaneous. People, people could just not resist climbing in, through around, all over the LOVE. And of course that wasn’t so happy because Cor-ten steel is very, very, rather a tender medium, and takes scuffing and graffiti and so forth very badly. But that was a very gratifying experience for me. It was quite obvious that everybody did love the LOVE.

— Robert Indiana

Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Interview with Robert Indiana, January 13, 1991, Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech Archive 1987–2005.