“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

Robert Rauschenberg

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

Robert Rauschenberg

“Josef Albers's [a former art teacher of Rauschenberg, on Black Mountain College ] rule is to make order. As for me, I consider myself successful when I do something that resembles the lack of order I ...”

Robert Rauschenberg

“I don't feel any direct relationship between what I do and existing art. Though there is unavoidable progression: the things all paintings have in common are paint, and color, and some means of applic...”

Robert Rauschenberg

“Outside the big idea that there is art I don't think of other's paintings. But I defend the idea of art and know that it is made up of all these paintings. Classic pictures are objects that may or may...”

Robert Rauschenberg