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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.
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
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Bob Rauschenberg
Matson Jones
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Everything
Nothing
Life
Neither
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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 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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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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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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.
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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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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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 begin with the possibilities of the material.
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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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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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