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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
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Port Arthur
Texas
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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A canvas is never empty.
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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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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 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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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 prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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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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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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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 is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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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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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've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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