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Curiosity is the main energy.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
Artist
Choreographer
Designer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Performance Artist
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
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Curiosity

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It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.
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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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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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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've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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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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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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An empty canvas is full.
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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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.
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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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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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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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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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'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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