Robert Rauschenberg ,quotes

Every time I've moved, my wor...

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

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People ask me, 'Don't you eve...

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.

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And I think that even today, ...

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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Very quickly a painting is tu...

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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The artist's job is to be a w...

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

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If you don't have trouble pay...

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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So that ideas of sort of rela...

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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The only thing that I could g...

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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Steichen bought my first phot...

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.

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One can see that a canvas is ...

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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You have to have the time to ...

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

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And also the new excitement a...

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 think maybe chance works be...

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 did a twenty foot print and ...

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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You begin with the possibiliti...

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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There was a whole language tha...

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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So that ideas of sort of relax...

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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I don't think there's anything...

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.

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It's so easy to be undisciplin...

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

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I don't think of myself as mak...

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

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