Top 39 Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

About Robert Rauschenberg

These are some quotes by American author Robert Rauschenberg Artist, who lived between October 22, 1925 and May 12, 2008.

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.

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.

Robert Rauschenberg

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. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.

Robert Rauschenberg

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

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

Robert Rauschenberg

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.

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

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.

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

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

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

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Robert Rauschenberg

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