Robert Rauschenberg: Man at Work

Rauschenberg, Robert: I love drawing, and I was trying to find a way to bring drawing into the 'all whites.' I kept making drawings myself and erasing them, and it just looked like an erased Rauschenberg. Or, you know, it was nothing. So I figured out that it had to begin as art. So I thought, 'It's got to be a de Kooning if it's going to be an important piece.' You see how ridiculously you have to think in order to make this work?