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If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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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Curiosity is the main energy.
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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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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 feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
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I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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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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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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An empty canvas is full.
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The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
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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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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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Success is a worn down pencil.
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Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
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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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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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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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There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
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