Carolina QuotesFor the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated.. .I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, c. 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 206
- work
- Rauschenberg / Art and Live, 1990
- year
- 1990
- locator
- p. 206
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“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beau…” Robert Rauschenberg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-519FEC81E7. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/519fec81e7
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