I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes… — 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
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio. — 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
Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed,… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“I didn't want painting to be simply an act of emphasizing one color to do something to another color, like using red… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.” — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two. -… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes… — 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
