Robert Rauschenberg Quotes & Sayings
30 most famous Robert Rauschenberg quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American artist who passed away on 12 May, 2008.
“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”
“An empty canvas is full.”
“I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.”
“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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