Carolina QuotesI got so depressed that I went to an astrologer.. ..everybody I knew was breaking up. Everything was falling apart. There was such an abundance of bad news [on his retreat to Captiva where he started his studio and a print studio]
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
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from Rauschenberg, Barbara Rose, Vintage Books, New York, 1987, p. 86
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- 1980
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- p. 86
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