"Basically painting is total idiocy." — Robert Rauschenberg
"Basically painting is total idiocy."
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Robert Rauschenberg
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70 Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg
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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…
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One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting.…
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Curiosity is the main energy.
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I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And…
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was…
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that…
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A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.
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Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
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The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I…
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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that…
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More Idiocy Quotes
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
— Gene Roddenberry
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of…
— Gene Roddenberry
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no…
— Rajneesh
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No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition.…
— Starhawk
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
— Robert Graves
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Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words,…
— Aldous Huxley
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I…
— Larry Ellison
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
— Fidel Castro
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