But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable — 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 been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
