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I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Value the process.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
— Robert Rauschenberg
And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
— Robert Rauschenberg
A canvas is never empty.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I don't mess around with my subconscious.
— Robert Rauschenberg
But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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
Success is a worn down pencil.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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 newspaper.
— Robert Rauschenberg
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
— Robert Rauschenberg
By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.
— Robert Rauschenberg
A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
— Robert Rauschenberg
You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.
— Robert Rauschenberg
You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Curiosity is the main energy...
— Robert Rauschenberg
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall ... The point is to be uninteresting.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.
— Robert Rauschenberg
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
— Robert Rauschenberg
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
— Robert Rauschenberg
An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
— Robert Rauschenberg
An empty canvas is full.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
— Robert Rauschenberg
This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
— Robert Rauschenberg
The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
— Robert Rauschenberg
If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.
— Robert Rauschenberg
(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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 to get along with myself.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Pollock also ... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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 the risk.
— Robert Rauschenberg
It is impossible to have progress without conscience
— Robert Rauschenberg
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.
— Robert Rauschenberg
For me there is no difference between art and life.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
— Robert Rauschenberg
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
— Robert Rauschenberg
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.
— Robert Rauschenberg
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
— Robert Rauschenberg
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,
— Robert Rauschenberg
I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.- 1959, from a catalogue — Robert Rauschenberg
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I was much happier when I had less responsibility ... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
— Robert Rauschenberg
My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Work is my joy ... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Basically painting is total idiocy.
— Robert Rauschenberg