Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many a...
JERRY SALTZ I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically corre...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't ...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world lo...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG consider yourself lucky.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG My responsibility,
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned w...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Certain signs precede certain events.
[Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polk...
WOLFGANG TILLMANS A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
[Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
TITUS LIVY Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inem...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and
arrogance.
[Lat., In rebus prosperi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself
to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mih...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Cons...
TITUS LIVY I was trying to tell Robert to assist me in pacing, but Robert refused.
BENJAMIN MAIYO Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in
war.
[Lat., Gaudent magni viri r...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than
envy was devised by Sicilian tyrant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Their Spenser, Robert Urich, is big, graceful, good-looking and young (a runner-up in the Robert B. ...
ROBERT PARKER Robert was nothing less than mocked.
GEOFFREY FIEGER I'm sick of most of what Robert does,
VAL KILMER America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her WALT WHITMAN It's dramatic monologues, almost like Robert Browning.
JOSEPH GRAVES Robert Merrill is a human highlight tape.
DAN MCCARNEY We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since
things require a seed to start from.
...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
MUDDY WATERS Robert Turtle is the father I've always wanted.
PAIGE LOVE ROSE(PAIGE LIPSEY) Robert played very well for us last year.
HOWARD FISHER I like my boyfriends to bend over, Robert.
BELINDA MCBRIDE Ingersoll i...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who
can endure a wretched life.
[Lat.,...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him [John Rebus]: I drink at his bar and I l...
IAN RANKIN I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
JACKIE CHAN Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
REX HARRISON Do steers sign treaties with meat packers? Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN Robert and Kevin really communicated well on the court.
HOWARD FISHER I actually have Robert Kardashian blocked from my Instagram.
BLAC CHYNA Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
ROBERT BURTON A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy
EVAN THOMAS I'm not so sure Robert Swift doesn't deserve to start.
BOB HILL This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is
good and to grieve at the opposite.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It's a matter of what has happened to Micheal and Robert,
ED ORGERON I think we can do better. That is what Robert Kennedy always said. I think we can do better too. Won...
PAUL WELLSTONE …we must be careful not to do our enemies’ work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms...
LILLIAN WHITE Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Working with Robert Redford would be an unbelievable dream come true.
JONATHAN KELTZ I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis u...
DALE T. MORTENSEN He also had a condition that was referred to as granulated eyelids and it caused him to blink more t...
RON HANSEN Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BB...
KEN STOTT Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
SARAH VOWELL Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.
ROBERT GREENLEAF We have had meetings with Robert Smith and he does have reservations.
BOARD PRESIDENT RICHARD REILLY I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
JOHN HAWKES Robert had an excellent game, and he's much improved from the spring.
LANCE MARTIN So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.
-- Robert Frost
JOHN GREEN I think Robert Lane has come on very strong, especially the last scrimmage,
ED ORGERON Every time you listen to the radio, you listen to Robert Moog's influence.
CHARLES CARLINI Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly -Robert H. Schuller
ROBERT H. SCHULLER You should only say good things when somebody leaves. Robert has gone - good!
FREDDY SHEPHERD I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the...
JERRY SALTZ He had all the attributes...
THOMAS A. EDISON The future historian will rank ELIZABETH CADY STANTON He had all the a...
THOMAS A. EDISON I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
DAVID EDWARDS I'm sure the Duquesne kids are aware of Robert Morris and I'm sure the Robert Morris kids are aware ...
JOE WALTON For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,
ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony.
DR. ROBERT ANTHONY Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.
- Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr)...
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR) Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I applaud Director (Robert) Mueller for reaching out to Iowa State and other universities.
GREGORY GEOFFROY I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.
MICHAEL KORDA Yes, if it came with a tag saying that Robert Blake is a murderer.
ERIC DUBIN We prepared well for Robert Morris and knew what we were going to face.
JASON BLOOM Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influen...
DUSTIN YELLIN We ran as if to meet the moon.
ROBERT FROST The difference between our band and others out there is that we're called "The Robert Cray Band" and...
ROBERT CRAY When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in fu...
BOB DYLAN At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat ...
ERIC CLAPTON (Tomorrow's first round is) just as important for Capps as it is myself and Robert. (The Mopar/Oakle...
GARY SCELZI The promise of peace is a lie.
ROBERT ADAMS Having trustable friends is rare these days.
ROBERT ADAMS When nothing goes right...go left.
ROBERT ADAMS The good people in history are never remembered. The people that do get remembered are the ones who ...
ROBERT ADAMS Saying that you never lie, is a lie.
ROBERT ADAMS History tends to repeat itself only because the people who make it, try to cover it up.
ROBERT ADAMS The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pl...
ROBERT PINSKY Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we b...
NATALIE S. BOBER