Robert Rauschenberg Quotes about Painting

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

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

World, Painting, Reason

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

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

Robert Rauschenberg

Art, Adventure, Painting

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

Robert Rauschenberg

Mean, Want, Painting

Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.273, MIT Press