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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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
Artist
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Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
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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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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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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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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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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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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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