Quotes from Robert Rauschenberg

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

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.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable