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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
Designer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Performance Artist
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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 concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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 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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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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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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It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.
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Curiosity is the main energy.
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An empty canvas is full.
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