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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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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Painter
Performance Artist
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Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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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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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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