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 RauschenbergThere was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.
Robert RauschenbergIf you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
Robert Rauschenberg