Robert Rauschenberg Want Quotations

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.