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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
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Performance Artist
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Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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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 don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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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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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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 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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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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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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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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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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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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