Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically. Robert Rauschenberg More Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg More Quotes From 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. Robert Rauschenberg years ideas thinking But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable Robert Rauschenberg new-york fear mean I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else Robert Rauschenberg artist responsibility thinking The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone. Robert Rauschenberg able use gone 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. Robert Rauschenberg pain struggle attitude 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. Robert Rauschenberg uptown batteries years And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting. Robert Rauschenberg would-be air way 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. Robert Rauschenberg reading people thinking I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended Robert Rauschenberg painting way With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration. Robert Rauschenberg collaboration elements trying 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 Robert Rauschenberg black-and-white giving mean 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. Robert Rauschenberg men art thinking An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full. Robert Rauschenberg canvas empty want You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. Robert Rauschenberg abstract sorry order While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins. Robert Rauschenberg margins textbooks reading There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is. Robert Rauschenberg shadow facts fall It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track. Robert Rauschenberg track discipline character I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. Robert Rauschenberg auctions home night I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention. Robert Rauschenberg intention photograph taken I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee. Robert Rauschenberg coffee hot thinking
