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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
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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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.
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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'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 feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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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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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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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 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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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 was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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Success is a worn down pencil.
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An empty canvas is full.
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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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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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