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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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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 was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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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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My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.
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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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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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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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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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It is impossible to have progress without conscience
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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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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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