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
I don't think that we have the strength over a period of years to see things always as though we hadn't ever looked at them before to see them new.
Everybody thought I was being elitist, ... I wanted the best, to get variety.
One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.
But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.
Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
An empty canvas is full.
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.