Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

• 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 don’t like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors’ homes between auctions.

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• Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made – I try to act in the gap.

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• I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

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• You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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• Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I’ve been here for four years and this is 1965.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.

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• So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

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• Pollock also… wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

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• One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it’s five, or thirty seconds and it’s just a different bed for activities there.

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• If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

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• I’m sure we don’t read old paintings the way they were intended.

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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 wouldn’t use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

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• I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don’t maintain constantly the you can’t refer back from one area to another area.

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• I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out the real world.

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• I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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Robert Rauschenberg (33)

Birth:	22nd October, 1925
Death:	12th May, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter

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Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations.

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