Robert Rauschenberg Quote Explained: My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

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I wouldn’t use the same color in a picture in more than one place

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Color

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Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

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I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

- Robert Rauschenberg

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Point Of View

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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

- Robert Rauschenberg

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Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

- Robert Rauschenberg

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I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

- Robert Rauschenberg

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I don’t want a picture to look like something it isn’t. I want it to look like something it is.

- Robert Rauschenberg

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

- Robert Rauschenberg

Artist

· USA

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

I wouldn’t use the same color in a picture in more than one place

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

I don’t want a picture to look like something it isn’t. I want it to look like something it is.

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

I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible.

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

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