"You have to have the time to feel……" — Robert Rauschenberg
"You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist."
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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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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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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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