Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

Movies bore me; especially my own.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

I hate entertainment.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

As the world is weary of me so am I of it.