Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

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• You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of…
• One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries…
• Curiosity is the main energy.
• 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…
• Basically painting is total idiocy.
• My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
• 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.
• I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
• 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…
• A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.
• Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
• 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…
• 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…
• You begin with the possibilities of the material.
• I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen…
• This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
• I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch…
• It is impossible to have progress without conscience
• People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's…
• My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art,

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