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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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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.
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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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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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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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Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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