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Quote by 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.”

Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

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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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“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

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“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.”

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

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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.”

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“It is impossible to have progress without 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.”

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

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“There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.”

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“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.”

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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”

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