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You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
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Port Arthur
Texas
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.
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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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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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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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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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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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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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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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