Robert Rauschenberg

Rauschenberg, Robert Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Who Gets to Call It Art?

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ennis' Gift

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Robert Rauschenberg: Man at Work

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Seven Portraits

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Painters Painting

  1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen American Art in the 1960s

  1972, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen End of the Art World

  1971, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Fall

  1969, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen What's Happening?

  1967, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Robert Rauschenberg:

"I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change,"

"Everybody thought I was being elitist, ... I wanted the best, to get variety."

"My responsibility,"

"consider yourself lucky."

"Rebus,"

"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965."

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."

"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."

"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."

"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."

"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway."

"I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested."

"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."

"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."

"I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area."

"Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three."

"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."

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

"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."

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