"I had been working purely abstractly for so……" — Robert Rauschenberg
"I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice."
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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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Basically painting is total idiocy.
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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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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
— Marcel Duchamp
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long…
— Adolf Hitler
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people…
— Eric Hoffer
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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of…
— Will Schwalbe
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not…
— Christopher Cokinos
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I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all…
— Slavoj Žižek
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As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment,…
— Chris Hedges
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The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang…
— Wilfrid
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had…
— John Pople
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To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also…
— Thomas Merton
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It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns…
— Kenny Smith
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