Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

• 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.

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• I don’t mess around with my subconscious.

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• I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

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• 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.

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• Every time I’ve moved, my work has changed radically.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you’re soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

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• An empty canvas is full.

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• 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.

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Robert Rauschenberg (33)

Birth:	22nd October, 1925
Death:	12th May, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter

About

Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations.

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