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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

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.”

Thinking Ends Artist Fear Loses Late Terror Studios

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“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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“I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.”

Thinking Years Kind Has Beens Lasts Honesty Painting Proud Twenties Paint Painter Behave

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“I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.”

Thinking Want Ideas Form Results Support Achieve Design Color Discipline Opposites Response Predetermined Hesitant

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“I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.”

Thinking Used Lines Cold Hot Coffee Cups Howl Coffee Cup Ginsberg

Book: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.”

People Thinking Feels Long Mirrors Sorry Ugly Miserable Bottles Dishes Soap Coke

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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.”

People Thinking Used Reading Newspapers Immoral Garbage Wraps

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“I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.”

Ifs Thinking World Made Real Painting Real World

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“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.”

People Thinking Knows Trying I Can Ideas Use Accepting Know How Possibility Bored Appetite Irresistible

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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”

Thinking Stills Today Quality New York Extraordinary Corners Unexpected

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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”

Thinking Way Persons Has Beens Artist Given Responsibility Permission

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“And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway”

Thinking Painting

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“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.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Ideas Form Design Shapes Concerned Relaxed Symmetry

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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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