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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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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
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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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
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An empty canvas is full.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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 feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.
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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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