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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
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Graphic Artist
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Performance Artist
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Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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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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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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One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.
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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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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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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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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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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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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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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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 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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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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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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