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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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Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Bob Rauschenberg
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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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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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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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I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.
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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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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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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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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 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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.
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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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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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