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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
Bob Rauschenberg
Matson Jones
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Never
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I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
Robert Rauschenberg
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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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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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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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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Robert Rauschenberg
Success is a worn down pencil.
Robert Rauschenberg
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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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
Robert Rauschenberg
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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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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