Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

About Robert Rauschenberg:

Robert Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993. He became the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts in 1995 in recognition of his more than 40 years of fruitful artmaking.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Robert Rauschenberg

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

Robert Rauschenberg

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

Robert Rauschenberg

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

Robert Rauschenberg

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area.

Robert Rauschenberg

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

Robert Rauschenberg

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.

Robert Rauschenberg

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.

Robert Rauschenberg

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.

Robert Rauschenberg

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

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.

Robert Rauschenberg

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

Robert Rauschenberg

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.

Robert Rauschenberg

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

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Rauschenberg
  • DescriptionAmerican artist
  • BornOctober 22, 1925
  • DiedMay 13, 2008
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhotographer; Painter; Sculptor; Artist
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts; Praemium Imperiale