Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph.

Robert Rauschenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 22, 1925 - May 12, 2008

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StyleMountainSchoolBlackFirst

I've always been a fan of the five-speed transmission - on anything.

Joe Bonamassa

AlwaysAnythingBeenFan

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

Joan Jett

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I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'

Robert Hass

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The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

Matthew Desmond

HopeMeThinkPovertyHardshipTry

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

Tom Hardy

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I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

Michelle Forbes

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When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Fiction is a report from the interior.

Deborah Eisenberg

FictionInteriorReport

People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away.

Cornelia Parker

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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

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When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.

Peter Higgs

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