Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
Robert RauschenbergI like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.
Robert RauschenbergI don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
Robert RauschenbergA 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.
Robert RauschenbergMy fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own clichรฉ. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.
Robert RauschenbergOne has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.
Robert Rauschenberg