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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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
Painter
Performance Artist
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Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest 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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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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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I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.
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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.
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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.
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An empty canvas is full.
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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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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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