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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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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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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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Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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A canvas is never empty.
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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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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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One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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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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I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.
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I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.
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