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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
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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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It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.
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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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It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.
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People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.
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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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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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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 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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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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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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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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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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 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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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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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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