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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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An empty canvas is full.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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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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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.
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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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