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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.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
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