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“Curiosity is the main energy...”
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“An empty canvas is full.”
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“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.
- 1959, from a catalogue”
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- 1959, from a catalogue”
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“I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.”
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“Value the process.”
― Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
― Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
“I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.”
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“You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.”
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“I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.”
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“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.”
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“I didn't want painting to be simply an act of emphasizing one color to do something to another color, like using red to intensify green, because that would imply some subordination of red. I didn't want color to serve me.”
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“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.”
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“Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”
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