Robert Rauschenberg Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  World, Painting, Reason

  Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Schimmel, Thomas E. Crow, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2005). “Robert Rauschenberg: combines”, Steidl / Edition7L

• 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

• One 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

  Believe, Commitment, Passion

• I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Want, Painting

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.273, MIT Press

• Basically painting is total idiocy.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Painting, Idiocy

• And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Air, Would Be, Way

• I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Real, Thinking, World

• 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

• Very 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 Rauschenberg

  Aerospace, Painting, Familiar

  "How to Look at a Rauschenberg" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2017.

• I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Honesty, Thinking, Years

  "Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg". Interview with Dorothy Seckler, www.aaa.si.edu. December 21, 1965.

• Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Strength, Color, Etc

  Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

• I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Two, Want, Way

  "Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg". Interview with Dorothy Seckler, www.aaa.si.edu. December 21, 1965.

• 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

• But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

  Robert Rauschenberg

  New York, Fear, Mean

• I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Looks, Want, Painting

• And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Thinking, Painting

• There 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

  Pain, Attitude, Struggle

• I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Way, Painting

• A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Oil, Nails, Fabric

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.108, MIT Press

• And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Black And White, Giving

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