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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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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.
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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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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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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.
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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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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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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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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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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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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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