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Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Schimmel, Thomas E. Crow, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2005). “Robert Rauschenberg: combines”, Steidl / Edition7L

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.62, MIT Press

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

"The secret of my excess". Interview with Michael Kimmelman, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2000.