Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenbergwas an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993. He became the recipient of the Leonardo...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth22 October 1925
CityPort Arthur, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can’t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
It is impossible to have progress without conscience
I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.
I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.
Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.
I don't mess around with my subconscious
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.
You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.
I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.