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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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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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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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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A canvas is never empty.
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But I was in awe of the painters I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable
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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 think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
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