160 Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.