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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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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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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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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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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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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An empty canvas is full.
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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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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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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Curiosity is the main energy.
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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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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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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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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 impossible to have progress without conscience
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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