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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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Performance Artist
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Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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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 feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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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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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 don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.
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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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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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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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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
Robert Rauschenberg
