Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

An empty canvas is full.
Robert Rauschenberg

Full, Empty, Canvas

I don't mess around with my subconscious.
Robert Rauschenberg

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.
Robert Rauschenberg

Today, Place, Around

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
Robert Rauschenberg

Work, Time, Changed

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
Robert Rauschenberg

Sick, Sculpture

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

Else, Trouble, Needs

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

Same, Used, Reading

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.
Robert Rauschenberg

Time, Mean, Black

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 colored air and it would be painting.
Robert Rauschenberg

Put, Excitement, Though

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.
Robert Rauschenberg

Life, Painting, Anyway

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.
Robert Rauschenberg

Talk, Difficult, Found

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

Mean, Thought, Here

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.
Robert Rauschenberg

Good, Reason, Means

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 had a car and who would be willing to do this.
Robert Rauschenberg

Car, Person, Knew

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
Robert Rauschenberg

Person, Put, Else

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
Robert Rauschenberg

Real, Made, Painting

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 you can't refer back from one area to another area.
Robert Rauschenberg

Music, Time, Another

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.
Robert Rauschenberg

Same, Place, Picture

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
Robert Rauschenberg

Two, Find, Enough

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
Robert Rauschenberg

Old, Read, Sure

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.
Robert Rauschenberg

Different, Two, Quite

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
Robert Rauschenberg

Two, Three, Started

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
Robert Rauschenberg

Wanted, Painting, Wrapped

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 a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
Robert Rauschenberg

Design, Ideas, Concerned

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Robert Rauschenberg

Time, History, Job

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: October 22, 1925

Died: May 12, 2008

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