Top 39 Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

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.

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

An empty canvas is full.

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.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

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