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

Robert Rauschenberg

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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. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "

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" An empty canvas is full. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. "

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

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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. "

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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. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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" 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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