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art shouldn't be a fixed idea

"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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