Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

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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'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.

An empty canvas is full.

An empty canvas is full.

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...

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...

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.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me...

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me...

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

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

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 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...

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to...

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to...

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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...