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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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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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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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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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A canvas is never empty.
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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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.
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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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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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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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 feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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