Carolina Quotes[I] could not design forms and colors that would achieve some preconceived result.. .I wasn't going to hire them. I was more interested in working WITH them than in their working for me.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
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Quote from Rauschenberg, Andrew Forge, H.N. Abrams, New York n.d., p. 12
- work
- 1980's
- year
- 1980
- locator
- p. 12
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