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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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
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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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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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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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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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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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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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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
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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 used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.
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An empty canvas is full.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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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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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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