Carolina QuotesI don't think he [ Josef Albers ] ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. .I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing – I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.
Robert Rauschenberg Connected to the Carolinas
Source
pp. 199-200
- work
- The Bride and the Bachelors, (1962)
- year
- 1962
- locator
- pp. 199-200
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“I don't think he [ Josef Albers ] ever realized that it was …” Robert Rauschenberg. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D836520EFD. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d836520efd
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