Carolina Quotes..for most painters nowadays [1954] examination is self-examination – this is all that we are accustomed to – while the relation to the audience is a social matter. And it is our pictures, not ourselves, that live the social life and meet the public.
Robert Motherwell Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 106
- work
- 'The painter and the audience' (1954)
- year
- 1954
- locator
- p. 106
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