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[we gave] permission to do what we wanted.. .It would be hard to imagine my work at that time [c. 1956 – 1960] without his [ Jasper John's] encouragement.

— Robert Rauschenberg

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I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.

Kenneth Coutts-Smith (1970)

It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. 'Today' is their creator.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)

[Art is] a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

The Bride and the Bachelors (1962)

Work is my joy.. .Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

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