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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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Performance Artist
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Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
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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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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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A canvas is never empty.
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.
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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 prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.
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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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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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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