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Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

American Artist

Born: Oct 22, 1925

Died: May 12, 2008

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People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on 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. Robert Rauschenberg

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. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore. Robert Rauschenberg

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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. Robert Rauschenberg

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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

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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. 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

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