Robert Rauschenberg Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Strong, Creating

• You begin with the possibilities of the material.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Architecture, Possibility

• It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art

• I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Thinking, Contentment

• 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 Rauschenberg

  Art, Adventure, Painting

• For me there is no difference between art and life.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Differences, Art And Life

• My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Used, Concern

• My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

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  Art, Attention, Might

  Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

• There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Pain, Attitude

  "Robert Rauschenberg, Works, Writings and Interviews" by Sam Hunter, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain, (p. 37), 2006.

• This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Works Of Art, Telegrams

• Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Thinking, Understanding

  Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

• I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Men, Thinking

• Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Trying, Gaps

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.62, MIT Press

• Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Mean, World

  "The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde". Book by Calvin Tomkins (p. 3), 1962.

• 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 Rauschenberg

  Art, Boys, Blue

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