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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 22
Died: 2008
Died: May 12
Artist
Choreographer
Designer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Performance Artist
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Port Arthur
Texas
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
Bob Rauschenberg
Matson Jones
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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
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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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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 prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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An empty canvas is full.
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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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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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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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