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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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Graphic Artist
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Performance Artist
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Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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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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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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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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.
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Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.
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I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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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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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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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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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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