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Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter known for his innovative and interdisciplinary works that combined painting, sculpture, photography, and performance art. His style spanned across Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual Art, and Pop Art, profoundly influencing 20th-century art.

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“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.”

Thinking Way Want Art Found Painting Best Way Contentment

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“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.”

Thinking Men Art Use Views Influence Materials Point Of View Another Man Representing Implying

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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.”

World Mean Art Art Is Function Paint

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“This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.”

Firsts Art Made Artist Boys Saws Painting First Time Blue I Realized Encounters

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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.”

Art Whole Pain Language Attitude Quality Struggle Materials Conflict Function Paint Painter

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“This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.”

Ifs Art Works Of Art Telegrams

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“For me there is no difference between art and life.”

Art Differences Art And Life

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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.”

Art Painting Adventure Holes Undefined

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

Art Used Concern

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“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.”

Trying Art Made Painting Relate Gaps Art And Life

Book:Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde

Source: Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde

“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

Art Possibility Materials Architecture New Possibilities

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“My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.”

Art Might Attention Dangerous Possibility Art Is Pay Attention

Book:Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective

Source: Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective

“It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.”

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“I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.”

Way Feels Art Belief Strong Understanding Share Information Benefits Creating Contact Peaceful Hopefully Mutual Collaboration Traveled Seducing Elitist Mutual Understanding

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“Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.”

Thinking Art Form Understanding Understood Blindness Good Art

Book:Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective

Source: Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective

About the Author

Born: October 22, 1925
Died: May 12, 2008
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 92

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