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

Value the process. — Robert Rauschenberg

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

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

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty. — Robert Rauschenberg

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg

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

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

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun. — Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. — Jerry Saltz

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention. — Robert Rauschenberg

Success is a worn down pencil. — 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. — Robert Rauschenberg

You begin with the possibilities of the material. — Robert Rauschenberg

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination. — Robert Rauschenberg

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous. — Robert Rauschenberg

A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric. — Robert Rauschenberg

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

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. — Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor. — Robert Rauschenberg

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist. — Robert Rauschenberg

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is. — Robert Rauschenberg

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full. — Robert Rauschenberg

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying. — Robert Rauschenberg

Curiosity is the main energy... — Robert Rauschenberg

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

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall ... The point is to be uninteresting. — Robert Rauschenberg

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change. — Robert Rauschenberg

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait. — Robert Rauschenberg

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

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. — Robert Rauschenberg

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. — Robert Rauschenberg

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full. — Robert Rauschenberg

An empty canvas is full. — Robert Rauschenberg

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

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is. — Robert Rauschenberg

The working process is ideally freeing my mind. — Robert Rauschenberg

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas. — Robert Rauschenberg

(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint. — Robert Rauschenberg

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. — Robert Rauschenberg

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

It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk. — Robert Rauschenberg

It is impossible to have progress without conscience — 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. — Robert Rauschenberg

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring. — Robert Rauschenberg

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio. — Robert Rauschenberg

For me there is no difference between art and life. — Robert Rauschenberg

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

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. — Robert Rauschenberg

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so. — Robert Rauschenberg

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins. — Robert Rauschenberg

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. — Robert Rauschenberg

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, — Robert Rauschenberg

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

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.
- 1959, from a catalogue — 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. — Robert Rauschenberg

I was much happier when I had less responsibility ... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself. — Robert Rauschenberg

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for. — Robert Rauschenberg

Work is my joy ... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do. — Robert Rauschenberg

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

Basically painting is total idiocy. — Robert Rauschenberg