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“A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.”

Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

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

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

The book delves into Rauschenberg's innovative approach to art, examining his collaborations and the impact of his work on contemporary art. more

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Robert Rauschenberg

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. more

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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

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“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.”

Ends Use Able Spirit Chance Gone Geometric

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“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.”

Painting Familiar Aerospace

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“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

Art Possibility Materials Architecture New Possibilities

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.”

Reason Action Talking Sick Always Believe Shortcuts

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“This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.”

Ifs Portraits Irises

Book:Robert Rauschenberg: combines

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“I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.”

Ideas Materials

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“It is impossible to have progress without conscience”

Progress Impossible Conscience

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“People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In 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.”

People Firsts Ideas Use Running Turns Asks Havens Curiosity Disappointment Ask Me

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“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

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