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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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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It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.
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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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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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Curiosity is the main energy.
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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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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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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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