"I never allowed myself the luxury of those……" — Robert Rauschenberg
"I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial."
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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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