i have anyone else take my pictures. if anyone is in the room and going out, i tell them to take a camera, and they do it for me.
i like photographs of anything uninteresting. maybe just two doors on a wall.
the point is to be uninteresting. but you can have a second chance.
most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts. but i find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.
- robert rauschenberg, "questions for robert rauschenberg: growing old, artfully," interview by deborah solomon, new york times february 15, 2004
posted February 16, 2004 in art, speech.