"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap."

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Source : Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.62, MIT Press

Robert Rauschenberg

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“All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.”
“Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.”
“Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.”
“Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'”
“I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.”
“One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.”
“The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies”
“I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own. I love people and behaviors, and I'm interested and fascinated by why we do what we do. And I wanted to be a therapist, to be honest. Maybe wirking in film combines the two worlds, in a not super-linear way, but it definitely feeds both my two passions.”

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