Assemblage

"It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. 'Today' is their creator."

"history interview with Robert Rauschenberg, 1965 Dec. 21, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution."

"I got so depressed that I went to an astrologer.. ..everybody I knew was breaking up. Everything was falling apart. There was such an abundance of bad news"

"permission to do what we wanted.. .It would be hard to imagine my work at that time without his encouragement."

"I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed."