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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
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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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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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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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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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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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.
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
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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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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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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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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