All Robert Rauschenberg Quotes
- I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just… Anything Really
- A canvas is never empty. Canvas
- Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. Inspirational
- 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… Been
- I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself. Happier
- It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including… Certain
- I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change. Change
- Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or… Always Strongest
- Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically. Changed
- If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble. Amount
- The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. Artist
- A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in… Garbage
- I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. More
- And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were… Abstract
- Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where… Batteries
- Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. One
- Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. Ago
- I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who… Cage
- But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to. Artists
- I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the… Another Area