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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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An empty canvas is full.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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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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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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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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