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" Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Photography
World
Vision
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
Robert Rauschenberg
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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. "
Robert Rauschenberg
New York
New
Cage
" 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. "
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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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Down
Lived
Like
" An empty canvas is full. "
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Full
Empty
" 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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Without
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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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" I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. "
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Got
Just
Sick
" 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
" 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
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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. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Time
I Am
People
" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "
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Art
Witness
Job
" I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. "
Robert Rauschenberg
More
World
Real
" 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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Painting
New York
New
" Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically. "
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Changed
Time
Work
" I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Were
Way
Sure
" 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. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Think
You
Better
" If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas. "
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Going
Big
You
" 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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Three
Started
Two
" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "
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" And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. "
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I Think
Life
Limited
" 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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Needs
Doing
Just
" Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. "
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Also
Wanted
Wrapped
" 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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Day
Long
Think
" I don't mess around with my subconscious. "
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Mess
Around
Subconscious
" 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
" 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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Myself