160 Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

I don’t think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I’ve found to get along with myself.

I’ve not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

I wouldn’t use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience.

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.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

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.

I’m not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

I want my paintings to look like what’s going on outside my window rather than what’s inside my studio.