Robert Rauschenberg Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• 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

  Taken, Cameras, Sometimes

  4 Copy quote

• I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Long, Choices, Important

  7 Copy quote

• I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Struggle, Reading, Writing

  9 Copy quote

• I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Coffee, Thinking, Hot

  Robert Rauschenberg, Branden W. Joseph (2002). “Robert Rauschenberg”, p.97, MIT Press

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Pain, Attitude, Struggle

  7 Copy quote

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

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Home, Night, Auctions

  1989 On quick-turnover profits on his work. In the NewYork Times,10 May.

  14 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Men, Self, Opposites

  "Robert Rauschenberg, Works, Writings and Interviews". Book by Sam Hunter (p. 37), 2006.

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  Reading, Thinking, People

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Men, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

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

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Way, Painting

  4 Copy quote

• This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Boys, Blue

  6 Copy quote

• With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Trying, Collaboration, Elements

  4 Copy quote

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

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Color, Use

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Beautiful, Purple, India

  "Rauschenberg: Art and Life". Book by Mary Lynn Kotz, 1990.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Aerospace, Painting, Familiar

  "How to Look at a Rauschenberg" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2017.

  4 Copy quote

• And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Air, Would Be, Way

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Heart, Artist, Trying

  2004 In the NewYorkTimes,15 Feb.

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Fall, Shadow, Facts

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Adventure, Waiting, Life Is

  "I don't necessarily desire a perfect photography". Interview with Alain Sayag in Robert Rauschenberg "Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs", September 12, 1981.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Works Of Art, Telegrams

  4 Copy quote

• Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Photography, Communication, Violent

  6 Copy quote

• The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mind, Process

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Fun, Priorities, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• Basically painting is total idiocy.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Painting, Idiocy

  7 Copy quote

Page 3 of 4

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin