Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

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Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Robert Rauschenberg

The New Yorker · 2005

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Self-acceptance Art as therapy Painting Art

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2005

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Robert Rauschenberg

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Rauschenberg, Robert. "Everything in Sight: Robert Rauschenberg's New Life." Interviewed by Calvin Tompkins. The New Yorker, 23 May 2005, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/23/everything-in-sight.

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