Robert Rauschenberg Quotes
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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.
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Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.
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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
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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
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There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.
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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 what makes the adventure of painting.
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I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
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There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.
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I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.
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An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
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This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
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My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.
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One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.
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If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
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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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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.
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I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.
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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.
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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.
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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 implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
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While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.
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I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
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It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
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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.
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Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
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For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.
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Basically painting is total idiocy.
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An empty canvas is full.
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