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Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. Robert Rauschenberg

Time Words Virtue Punctuation Correct Corrects Point Never Almost Idea Wrote She Read Up Very Stop Being Screwing Interesting Interesting Idea Momentum Right Things Assistant By The Time

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

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. Robert Rauschenberg

Art Time History Witness Job His Artist

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations. Robert Rauschenberg

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else. Robert Rauschenberg

Responsibility Think Else Way Has-Been Given Put Permission Been Person Any Artist Anyone Anyone Else Whether Things

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. Robert Rauschenberg

Old Way Read Sure Were Intended Paintings

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. Robert Rauschenberg

Looking Painting Without Becomes Itself Very Familiar Quickly Turned

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

Painting Enough Way Say Possibilities Out Find Facile Know Making Accomplish Just Want Just One Explore Paintings Two

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. Robert Rauschenberg

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this. Robert Rauschenberg

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. Robert Rauschenberg

Life Painting Think Limited Anyway

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission. Robert Rauschenberg

Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph. Robert Rauschenberg

School Black First Style Before Sold Recognized Photograph Photographs About He Bought Another Years Mountain After Twenty Ever

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. Robert Smithson

Nature Rather Development Does Sprawling Line Proceed Straight Straight Line

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. Robert Smithson

Matter Visiting Void Going Museum

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control. Robert Smithson

Result Prison Control Out Some Fact Supporting Got Cultural End Up Artists In Fact Hold Which Them Apparatus Imagine

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. Robert Smithson

Everything Like Looks Turning Tombs Museum Museums

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Robert Smithson

Art Architecture Finished Painting Habit Sculpture

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Robert Smithson

Fraudulent Categories Fit Expected Artists

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. Robert Smithson

Words Fall Own Mental Feeble Banal Meaning Function Phenomena

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. Robert Smithson

Language Monumental Mutations Thus Advertising Because Becomes

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. Robert Smithson

Language Developing Isolated Occurrence Procedure Should Ever

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