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I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
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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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 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 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 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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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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 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 prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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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 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 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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A canvas is never empty.
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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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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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