Robert Rauschenberg Quotations | Page 2

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.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

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.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

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

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art,