160 Quotes by 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

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

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

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.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

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

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

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.