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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 refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.”

People World Want Humanity This World Commitment Refuse

Book:Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective

Source: Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective

“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 want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.”

Want Looks Painting Window Studios

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“I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.”

Want Looks Like Something

Book:Robert Rauschenberg

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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.”

Want Mean Reason Painting

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

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

“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.”

Knows Way Want I Can Two Enough Possibility Painting Accomplish Just One

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“An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.”

Ifs Want Empty Canvas Empty Canvas

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About the Author

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

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