Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

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

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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 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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• A newspaper that you’re not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn’t think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

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• An empty canvas is full.

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• But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

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• 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.

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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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• But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

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• And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

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• And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be 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.

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  Tags in Reason, Means, Picture

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I don’t mess around with my subconscious.

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  Tags in Around, Mess

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

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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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  Tags in Music, Better

Robert Rauschenberg (33)

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

About

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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