Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

You can't rush inspiration.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

When you're bored, you get creative.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.