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“There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#World #Painting #Reason
“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.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Art #Strong #Creating
“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Possibility #Materials
“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.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Art
“An empty canvas is full.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Canvas #Empty
“I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Talent
“My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Art #Used #Concern
“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Jobs #Artist #History
“Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Ideas #Interesting #Momentum
“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.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Art #Thinking #Contentment
“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.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Fear #Thinking #Artist
“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.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Ideas #Materials
“I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Boys #Friendly #World
“It is impossible to have progress without conscience”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Progress #Impossible #Conscience
“Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I canâ€™t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Ideas #Interesting #Assistants
“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.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Art #Adventure #Painting
“This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Art #Works Of Art
“Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Taken #Cameras #Sometimes
“I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Color #Use
“I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Responsibility #Self Responsibility
“But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#New York #Mean #Painting
“I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Home #Night #Auctions
“I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Views #Point Of View
“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.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Thinking #Color #Opposites
“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”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Thinking #Years #Ideas
“(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Art #Mean #World
“Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Heart #Artist #Trying
“Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Strength #Color #Etc
“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.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Coffee #Thinking #Hot
“If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.”
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Needs #Trouble #Certain

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