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• My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Used, Concern

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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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Sorry, Thinking, Mirrors

  "Art Out of Anything: Rauschenberg in Retrospect" by Michael Kimmelman, www.nytimes.com. December 23, 2005.

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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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Adventure, Painting

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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

  Robert Rauschenberg

  New York, Thinking, Quality

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• I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Art Without Compromise". Book by Wendy Richmond, 2009.

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• I don't mess around with my subconscious

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Subconscious, Mess

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.273, MIT Press

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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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Fear, Artist, Thinking

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

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Real, Thinking, World

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• I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Looks, Want, Painting

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• I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Want, Painting

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.273, MIT Press

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• I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Talking, Sick, Shortcuts

  National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.), Robert Rauschenberg (1976). “Robert Rauschenberg”

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• I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Wall, Doors, Two

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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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Believe, Commitment, Passion

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• Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Strength, Color, Etc

  Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

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

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Boys, Friendly, World

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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

  Art, Mean, World

  "The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde". Book by Calvin Tomkins (p. 3), 1962.

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• A canvas is never empty.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Canvas, Empty, Materials

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.21, MIT Press

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• Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Changed, Moved

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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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Pain, Attitude

  "Robert Rauschenberg, Works, Writings and Interviews" by Sam Hunter, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain, (p. 37), 2006.

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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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Beautiful, Color, Luxury

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• While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Reading, Textbooks, Margins

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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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Joy, Therapy, Knows

  "Rauschenberg: Art and Life". Book by Mary Lynn Kotz, 1990.

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• My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.

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  Mean, Fate, Hands

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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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Two, Want, Way

  "Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg". Interview with Dorothy Seckler, www.aaa.si.edu. December 21, 1965.

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• I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Views, Point Of View, Participants

  "Rauschenberg's collaborative artwork unveiled at Whitney" by Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. June 27, 2000.

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