Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. Robert Rauschenberg More Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg More Quotes From Robert Rauschenberg A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric. Robert Rauschenberg fabric nails oil Basically painting is total idiocy. Robert Rauschenberg idiocy painting One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone. Robert Rauschenberg passion believe commitment I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. Robert Rauschenberg humanity people commitment I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. Robert Rauschenberg real world thinking If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble. Robert Rauschenberg certain trouble needs I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words. Robert Rauschenberg color opposites thinking Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying. Robert Rauschenberg artist heart trying I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial. Robert Rauschenberg luxury color beautiful And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway Robert Rauschenberg painting thinking I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change. Robert Rauschenberg point-of-view participants views I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place Robert Rauschenberg color use I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting. Robert Rauschenberg wall doors two I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. Robert Rauschenberg sculpture sick My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in. Robert Rauschenberg fate mean hands I don't mess around with my subconscious Robert Rauschenberg subconscious mess Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically. Robert Rauschenberg moved changed I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself. Robert Rauschenberg self-responsibility responsibility 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. Robert Rauschenberg honesty years thinking A canvas is never empty. Robert Rauschenberg canvas empty materials
