Robert Rauschenberg Quotes on pain

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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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... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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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... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested... view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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But I was in awe of the painters.. view

By: Robert Rauschenberg

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