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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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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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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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 feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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An empty canvas is full.
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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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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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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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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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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This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.
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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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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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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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