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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
Texas
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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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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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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 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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You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
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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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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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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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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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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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