Carolina QuotesIt is my own personal psychosis that it is only by the background that you can see what is in front of you. Only be accepting all that surrounds you can you be totally self-visualized. And at the same time, your self-visualization is a reflection of your surroundings. Albers was right about that. That's why I like Cezanne so much. Matisse said, you have to read between the lines. When he would stop a line, say, at the ear, and beginning it again at the neck, he was really exercising the viewer's mind to fill in the blanks [parts].
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Quote from an interview with Barbara Rose, 1987, in Rauschenberg, Avedon Vintage, Random House, New York 1987, p. 72
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“It is my own personal psychosis that it is only by the backg…” Robert Rauschenberg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-B5BB9A804E. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/b5bb9a804e
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