The 92+ Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

I Was Much Happier When I Had Less Responsibility... When My Only Responsibility Was To My Work And To Myself.

You Have To Have The Time To Feel Sorry For Yourself In Order To Be A Good Abstract Expressionist.

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 Little Bit To Keep On The Right Track.

The Only Thing That I Could Get With Chance, And I Never Was Able To Use It, Was That I Would End Up With Something Quite Geometric Or The Spirit That I Was Interested In, Indulging In, Was Gone.

There Was A Whole Language That I Could Never Make Function For Myself In Relationship To Painting, And That Was Attitudes Like Tortured, Struggle, Pain.

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 I Moved To Uptown And I've Been Here For Four Years And This Is 1965.

I'm Quite Taken Aback When I Get Something That Appears To Be Technically A Good Photograph, Because It's Not Necessarily My Intention.

If I Declare It To Be So, Then This Is A Portrait.

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 Of Paint And Have Let It Behave Openly.

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 Here Was Just Unbelievable

An Empty Canvas Is Full Only If You Want It To Be Full.

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 And White. I Mean All The Things, Whether You're Soliciting Permission Or Not, Do Give You Permission