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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.
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
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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.
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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 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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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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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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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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've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
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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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An empty canvas is full.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
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But I was in awe of the painters I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable
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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.
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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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