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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
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Performance Artist
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Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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 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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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 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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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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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 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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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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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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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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