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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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
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Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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