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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
Designer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Performance Artist
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Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.
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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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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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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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I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.
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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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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.
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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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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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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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
Robert Rauschenberg
Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
Robert Rauschenberg
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 have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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