This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.
Robert RauschenbergI 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