Carolina QuotesI feel a conscious attempt to be more and more related to society. That's what's important to me as a person. I'm not going to let other people make all the changes; and if you do that, you can't curt yourself of.. .I'm only against the most obvious things, like wars and stuff like that. I don't have any particular concept about an utopian way things should be. I have a prejudice or a bias, it is that there shouldn't be any particular way. Being a complex human organ, we are capable of a variety; we can do so much. The big fear is that we don't do enough with our senses, with our activities, with our areas of consideration; and these have got to get bigger year after year.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
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- 'I never thought of it as much of an ability,' (1968)
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- 1968
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“I feel a conscious attempt to be more and more related to so…” Robert Rauschenberg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-07B274995D. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/07b274995d
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