“It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. 'Today' is their creator.”

—  Robert Rauschenberg

Quote, c. 1950; as cited in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 199
Rauschenberg's comment on his series 'White Paintings'
1950's

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