Carolina QuotesAnxiety is dead.
Josef Albers Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Albers' short quote in: Robert Rauschenberg, Works, Writings and Interviews Sam Hunter, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain 2006, p. 10
- year
- 2006
- locator
- p. 10
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“Anxiety is dead.” Josef Albers. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-2D2F7C2C1F. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/2d2f7c2c1f
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