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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
Artist
Choreographer
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Graphic Artist
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Performance Artist
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Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
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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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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 was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary
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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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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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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An empty canvas is full.
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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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