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" Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations. "

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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. "

Robert Rauschenberg

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" If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble. "

" 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. "

" Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. "

" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An empty canvas is full. "

" 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. "

" I don't mess around with my subconscious. "

" Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically. "

" 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. "

" I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. "

Robert Rauschenberg

World

Real

" 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. "

" 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. "

Robert Rauschenberg

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Lived

" I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area. "

" If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas. "

" I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. "

" 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. "

" Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. "

" Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. "