Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg was 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 various combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor, and the combines are a combination of the two, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance.Rauschenberg was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993 and the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts in 1995 in recognition of his more than 40 years of artmaking.Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City and on Captiva Island, Florida, until his death from heart failure on May 12, 2008. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. October 1925 – 12. May 2008
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Famous Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

Robert Rauschenberg Quotes about painting

“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)”

from Selections from the Ileana and Michael Sonnabend Collection, Sam Hunter, exhibition catalogue The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1985 p. 21
1980's

Robert Rauschenberg Quotes about art

Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

“I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.”

around 1965
Quote from Robert Rauschenberg, The early 1950s, Walter Hopps, Houston Fine Art Press, 1991
1960's

“It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. 'Today' is their creator.”

Quote, c. 1950; as cited in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 199
Rauschenberg's comment on his series 'White Paintings'
1950's

“I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.”

Quoted in: Kenneth Coutts-Smith (1970) The dream of Icarus, p. 53
1970's

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