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" I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Were
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Sure
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" 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 can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Time
Interesting
Momentum
" One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there. "
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Feet
Bed
Say
" Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965. "
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Lived
Like
" People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on 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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Disappointment
People
Curiosity
" 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
Spirit
Chance
End
" 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
You
Garbage
People
" 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
New York
New
Cage
" But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Me
Artists
Bar
" 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. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Today
Quality
Place
" I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. "
Robert Rauschenberg
More
World
Real
" 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
Shape
Years
Think
" 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
Painting
New York
New
" Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Changed
Time
Work
" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "
Robert Rauschenberg
You
Material
Possibilities
" An empty canvas is full. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Art
Full
Empty
" I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Color
Picture
Same
" 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
Out
Want
Reason
" 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
Relationship
Pain
Myself
" And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. "
Robert Rauschenberg
I Think
Life
Limited
" I don't mess around with my subconscious. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Mess
Around
Subconscious
" Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Style
Years
Black
" I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Got
Just
Sick
" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "
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Art
Witness
Job
" 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
Doing
Just
" 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. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Day
Long
Think
" And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Black And White
Painting
Picture
" If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Going
Big
You
" 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
Familiar
Without
Painting
" Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Three
Started
Two
" 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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Possibilities
Painting
Know