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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Robert Rauschenberg

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

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

Robert Rauschenberg

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Robert Rauschenberg

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

Robert Rauschenberg

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