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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
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Port Arthur
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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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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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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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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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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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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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An empty canvas is full.
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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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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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