Carolina QuotesWork is my joy.. .Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
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- Rauschenberg / Art and Live, 1990
- year
- 1990
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“Work is my joy.. .Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody w…” Robert Rauschenberg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-C75A2CF42A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/c75a2cf42a
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With the black ones [his 'Black Paintings'] I was interested in getting complexity without their revealing much – in the fact that there was much to see but not much showing. I wanted to show a painting that could have the dignity of not calling attention to itself. In both the blacks and the whites [paintings] there was none of the familiar aggressiveness of art that says, 'Well, here it is, whether you like it or not'.
He [ Jasper Johns ] and I were each other's first serious critics. Actually he was the first painter I ever shared ideas with, or had discussions with about painting. No, not the first. Cy Twombly was the first. But Cy and I were not critical. I did my work and he did his. Cy's direction was always so personal that you could only discuss it after the fact. But Jasper and I literally traded ideas. He would say, 'I've got a terrific idea for you' and then I'd have to find one for him. [remark on his cooperative relation with Jasper Johns, to his biographer Calvin Tomkins ]
Josef Albers's [a former art teacher of Rauschenberg, on Black Mountain College ] rule is to make order. As for me, I consider myself successful when I do something that resembles the lack of order I sense. (around 1949 during Black Mountain College, fh).