You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. — 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 by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable. — 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
