Robert Rauschenberg

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#closer #even #guess #had #half

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#painting #pollock #wanted #wrapped

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#been #concerned #design #form #i

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#his #history #job #time #witness

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#chance #could #end #geometric #get

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

#could #function #i #language #like

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

#familiar #into #itself #looking #painting

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#been #down #downtown #following #four

You begin with the possibilities of the material. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#begin #material #possibilities #you

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#i #more #picture #place #same