You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
Robert RauschenbergVery 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.
Robert RauschenbergThere was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
Robert Rauschenberg