It was because of the general inclination, until very recently, to believe that art exists in art. At every opportunity, I've tried to correct that idea, suggesting that art is only a part – one of the elements that we live with... Being a painter, I probably take a painting more seriously than someone who drives a truck or something. Being a painter, I probably also take his truck more seriously. In the sense of looking at it and listening to it and comparing it to other trucks and having a sense of its relationship to the road and the sidewalk and the things around it and the driver himself. Observation and measure are my business.


1960s and later - 'I never thought of it as much of an ability,' (1968)

Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

It was because of the general inclination, until very recently, to believe that art exists in art. At every opportunity, I've tried to correct that...

It was because of the general inclination, until very recently, to believe that art exists in art. At every opportunity, I've tried to correct that...

It was because of the general inclination, until very recently, to believe that art exists in art. At every opportunity, I've tried to correct that...

It was because of the general inclination, until very recently, to believe that art exists in art. At every opportunity, I've tried to correct that...