"Painting is always strongest when in spite of……" — Robert Rauschenberg
"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 arrangement."
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70 Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg
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- You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's…
- One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting.…
- Curiosity is the main energy.
- I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And…
- Basically painting is total idiocy.
- My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
- There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was…
- I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
- I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that…
- A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.
- Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
- The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I…
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