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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.
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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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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An empty canvas is full.
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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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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 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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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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A canvas is never empty.
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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 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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
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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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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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