“ You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist. Robert Rauschenberg
“ So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design. Robert Rauschenberg
“ I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this. Robert Rauschenberg
“ Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. Robert Rauschenberg
“ There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. Robert Rauschenberg
