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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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
Artist
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Performance Artist
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Port Arthur
Texas
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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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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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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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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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An empty canvas is full.
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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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 feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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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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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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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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