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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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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 art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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An empty canvas is full.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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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Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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 was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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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 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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