"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.“


-Robert Rauschenberg

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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

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