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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Robert Rauschenberg

Black And White

Painting

Picture

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area. "

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

Robert Rauschenberg

World

Real

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting. "

" So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Robert Rauschenberg

Artists

Bar

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

" 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. "

" 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

" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "