Really Just Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

— Robert Rauschenberg

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

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

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

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

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

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

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