I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else.… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art.… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share
