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

Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

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I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the...

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the...

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by...

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by...

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe...

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe...

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to...

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to...

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

An empty canvas is full.

An empty canvas is full.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship...

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship...

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

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

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over...

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over...

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one...

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one...

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New...

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New...

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he...

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he...

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so...

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so...

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality...

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality...

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

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

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people...

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people...

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I...

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I...

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one...

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one...