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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

- Robert Rauschenberg
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.