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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.
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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Port Arthur
Texas
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I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
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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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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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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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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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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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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.
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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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