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I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. .I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

— 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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