160 Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

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

Everybody thought I was being elitist, ... I wanted the best, to get variety.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

I don't think that we have the strength over a period of years to see things always as though we hadn't ever looked at them before to see them new.

And if I see in the superficial subconscious relationships that I'm familiar with, cliches of association, I change the picture.