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.Robert Rauschenberg
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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Robert Rauschenberg
I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
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I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
Robert Rauschenberg
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.
Robert Rauschenberg
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.
Robert Rauschenberg
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
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Abstract,
Air,
Also,
Applying,
Colored,
Could,
Excitement,
New,
Paint,
Painting,
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Though,
Variety,
Were,
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