“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.”
Robert Rauschenberg“Curiosity is the main energy...”
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“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”
Robert Rauschenberg“An empty canvas is full.”
Robert Rauschenberg“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.”
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“You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.”
Robert Rauschenberg“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.”
Robert Rauschenberg