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Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins Picture Quote #1

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full Picture Quote #1

You begin with the possibilities of the material Picture Quote #1

An empty canvas is full Picture Quote #1

It is impossible to have progress without conscience Picture Quote #1

Every time I’ve moved, my work has changed radically Picture Quote #1

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I got so I was really just sick of sculpture Picture Quote #1

I’m sure we don’t read old paintings the way they were intended Picture Quote #1

Basically painting is total idiocy Picture Quote #1

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three Picture Quote #1

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain Picture Quote #1

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don’t know anybody who loves work as much as I do Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble Picture Quote #1

I wouldn’t use the same color in a picture in more than one place Picture Quote #1

I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out the real world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

With me, it’s much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration Picture Quote #1

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric Picture Quote #1

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art Picture Quote #1

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I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this Picture Quote #1

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn’t work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice Picture Quote #1

There’s a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it’s your shadow and you’re forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is Picture Quote #1

It’s so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track Picture Quote #1

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) You begin with the possibilities of the material (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) An empty canvas is full (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) It is impossible to have progress without conscience (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) Every time I’ve moved, my work has changed radically (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) I got so I was really just sick of sculpture (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) I’m sure we don’t read old paintings the way they were intended (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) Basically painting is total idiocy (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don’t know anybody who loves work as much as I do (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) 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 (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) 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 (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) 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 Quotes) I wouldn’t use the same color in a picture in more than one place (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out the real world (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) 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 (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) 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 (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) 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 (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) With me, it’s much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn’t work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) There’s a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it’s your shadow and you’re forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) It’s so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes) 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 (Robert Rauschenberg Quotes)

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