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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
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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
Robert Rauschenberg
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
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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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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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
Robert Rauschenberg
I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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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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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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.
Robert Rauschenberg
It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
Robert Rauschenberg
Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
Robert Rauschenberg
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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