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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
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Curiosity is the main energy.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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But I was in awe of the painters I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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An empty canvas is full.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.
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People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.
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I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.
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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
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Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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