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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
Artist
Choreographer
Designer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Performance Artist
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
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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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A canvas is never empty.
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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.
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An empty canvas is full.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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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 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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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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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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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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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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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