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Robert Rauschenberg

Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance.

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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 quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

Gone, Use, Able, Interested, Spirit

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 less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Clearly, Shortcuts, Sick, Talking, Word

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

Air, Would Be, Way, Colored, Variety, Paint

I don't mess around with my subconscious

Subconscious, Mess

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc. , it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

Strength, Color, Etc, Strongest

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Extraordinary, New York, Quality, Thinking, Today

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

Cameras, Felt, Hold, Photographs, Sometimes, Taken

It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.

Missing, Risk, Found, Things

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

Sick, Sculpture

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 with the unknown.

Good, Ideas, Materials, Ones, Trust

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

Reading, Thinking, People, Think, Wrap, Immoral

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

Reading, Textbooks, Margins, Drew

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.

Art, Implying, Influence, Literally, Men, Thinking

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Art, Blindness, Thinking, Understanding

A canvas is never empty.

Canvas, Empty, Materials

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

Imagination, Prefer, Room, Rooms, Specific

An empty canvas is full.

Canvas, Empty, Empty Canvas, Full

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

Different, Originality, Traps, Having, Trap, Same

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

Against, Art, Everything, Life, Nothing

There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.

Fall, Shadow, Facts, Celebrate, Simply

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