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
Robert Rauschenberg quotes about
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.
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.
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 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.
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
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 like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
Success is a worn down pencil.
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.