All Robert Rauschenberg Quotes
- I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place Color
- 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… Awe
- And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway Inspirational
- So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is… Been
- I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended Inspirational
- And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black… All
- I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor. Been
- I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging… Allowed
- An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full. Canvas
- You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. Abstract
- It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art… Art
- With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them… Accepting
- Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells… All
- I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the… All
- While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins. Classmates
- Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. Art
- Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. All
- An empty canvas is full. Art
- I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. Inspirational
- I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work… Abstractly
- There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live… Celebrate
- I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found… Along
- It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a… Bit
- Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see,… Artist
- I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. Commitment