Robert Rauschenberg Painting Quotations

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

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.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

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

Basically painting is total idiocy.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

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.

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