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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
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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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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
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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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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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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary
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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
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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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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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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.
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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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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An empty canvas is full.
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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.
Robert Rauschenberg
A canvas is never empty.
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