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"The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication."

"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger."

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🇩🇪Robert Rauschenberg

Art

contemporary art

1925–2008

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

"At my arrival , Fauvism. Cubism, and Futurism were in full swing. There was in the air the glamour of a battle, the holy battle raging for the assertion of a new truth. My youth plunged full in it."

"original texts of Schwitter's 'Poemas' England 1946"

"There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement."

"Christina Kiae: 'The short life of the equal woman', Oct. 2017"

"Christina Lodder, 'Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design', Tate Papers, no.14, Autumn 2010"

"In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world."

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

"Tactile space separates us from objects, as opposed to visual space, which separates objects from one another. I have spent my life trying to paint the former kind."

"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him."

"I have no complaints, except for the world."

"The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function."

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🇺🇸Louise Nevelson

Politics

abstract expressionism

1899–1988

"Anywhere I found wood I took it home and started working with it..to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind."

"One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

"A union of purely artistic forms for a utilitarian purpose.."

"Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach."

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🇺🇸Robert Motherwell

Art

abstract expressionism

1915–1991

"A modern painter may have many audiences or one or none; he paints in relation to none of them, though he longs for the audience of other modern painters."

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