American - Artist | October 22, 1925 - May 12, 2008
Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
Robert Rauschenberg
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Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
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If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.
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Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.
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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
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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.
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Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
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Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
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One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.
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I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.
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I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area.
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