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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
Choreographer
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Performance Artist
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Port Arthur
Texas
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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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This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.
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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 artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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Curiosity is the main energy.
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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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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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A canvas is never empty.
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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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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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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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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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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