Carolina QuotesI think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
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Quoted in: Kenneth Coutts-Smith (1970) The dream of Icarus, p. 53
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“I think a picture is more like the real world when it is mad…” Robert Rauschenberg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-FB5BBF2F96. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/fb5bbf2f96
More from Robert Rauschenberg
I think the ideas [as starting point for his paintings] are based upon very obvious physical facts – notions that are also simple-minded, such as, in the 'White Paintings', wanting to know if that was a thing to do or not, or in 'Factum', wondering about what the role of accident is. Those aren't really very involved ideas.
[I have] various tricks to actually reach that solitary point of creativity. One of them is pretending I have an idea. But that trick doesn't survive very long because I don't really trust ideas – especially good ones.. .Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown. It is then that I begin to work.. ..when I don't have the comfort of sureness and certainty. Sometimes Jack Daniels helps too. Another good trick is fatigue. I like to start working when it's almost too late.. ..when my sense of efficiency is exhausted.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)