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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
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
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Matson Jones
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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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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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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
Robert Rauschenberg
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
Robert Rauschenberg
A canvas is never empty.
Robert Rauschenberg
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.
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