Carolina QuotesI didn't even know that there was art until I left Texas when I was eighteen. The only painting I knew (and I didn't know it was a 'painting' until much later) was 'Hope' [of George Frederic Watts, 1886] the woman sitting on the globe with.. .that green [of the painting 'Hope'] you only get in reproductions]! I think that negates the idea of a painter's relation to official – old master art. It was neutral ground – that one picture – I responded to visual things.. .'Hope' was just sort of visual thing there, not art.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
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“I didn't even know that there was art until I left Texas whe…” Robert Rauschenberg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-C681A97615. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/c681a97615
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