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" I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this. "

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" And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary. "

Robert Rauschenberg

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Quality

Place

" 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. "

" An empty canvas is full. "

" But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to. "

Robert Rauschenberg

Artists

Bar

" There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. "

" People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity. "

" And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission. "

" Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically. "

" Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph. "

" I don't mess around with my subconscious. "

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

" I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. "

Robert Rauschenberg

World

Real

" Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations. "

" I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable. "

" 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. "

" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "

" I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore. "

" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "

" The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone. "

" Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. "

" One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there. "

" Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965. "

Robert Rauschenberg

Down

Lived

" Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like. "

" If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas. "

" A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. "

" And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. "

" Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. "

" If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble. "

" I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. "

" I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else. "