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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Robert Rauschenberg

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 a painting has such a limited life anyway. "

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

Robert Rauschenberg

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" An empty canvas is full. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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