"For me art shouldn't be a fixed idea that I have before I start making it. I want it to include all the fragility and doubt that I go through the day with. Sometimes I'll take a walk just to forget whatever good idea I had that day because I like to go into the studio not having any ideas. I want the insecurity of not knowing, like performers feel before a performance. Everything I can remember, and everything I know, I have probably already done, or somebody else has."

— Robert Rauschenberg, American artist, quoted by Michael Kimmelman in an article about Rauschenberg, New York Times, "Arts & Leisure" section 2, August 27, 2000, p. 26.

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"The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness."

— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964

Is this still true?

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"Art is Art. Everything else is everything else." — Ad Reinhardt