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
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
