“So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for year...” — Robert Rauschenberg Quote

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.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

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

An empty canvas is full.

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.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

Unconventional careers are often feared, because they don't guarantee success or least a job. Hence, parents of most media, art and design professionals worry if their offsprings will ever settle with a steady career.

I'd love to design bridal dresses.

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.