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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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