You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
Robert RauschenbergYou have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
Robert RauschenbergI don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.
Robert Rauschenberg