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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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Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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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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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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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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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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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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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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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Curiosity is the main energy.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
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