Carolina QuotesEvery minute everything is different everywhere. It is all flowing.. .The duty or beauty of a painting is that there is no reason to do it nor any reason not to. It can be done as a direct act or contact with the moment and that is the moment you are awake and moving. It all passes and is never true literally as the present again leaving more work to be done.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Quote of Rauschenberg (1961), as cited in Introduction, Roberta Bernstein, from catalog 'The White and Black Paintings' — from a recording of a symposium in 1961, Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York, 1986
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- 1960's
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- 1960
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“Every minute everything is different everywhere. It is all f…” Robert Rauschenberg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-B884D4F5D2. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/b884d4f5d2
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Work is my joy.. .Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.
The photo can insist on reviewing moments that were unseen, or not know they were seen but passed in viewing. John Cage said (I don't know if they were his own remarks or Zen) his goal was not to get somewhere; he just wanted to enjoy the trip. That's the quality I want in all of my work, that a specific goal or accomplishment would be allied to the fact. I noticed a long time age, when I went to a strange country, that I had the best time and the greatest experiences when I thought I was lost, because when you are lost you look so much harder.
I think the ideas [as starting point for his paintings] are based upon very obvious physical facts – notions that are also simple-minded, such as, in the 'White Paintings', wanting to know if that was a thing to do or not, or in 'Factum', wondering about what the role of accident is. Those aren't really very involved ideas.