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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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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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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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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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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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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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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 prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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An empty canvas is full.
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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 was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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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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