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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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 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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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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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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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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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
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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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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 don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
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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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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
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A canvas is never empty.
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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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An empty canvas is full.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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