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I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke… — Robert Rauschenberg

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Robert Rauschenberg
1965
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Modern life
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1965
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Robert Rauschenberg
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Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in The Bride & the Bachelors: The Heretical Courtship in Modern Art, by Calvin Tomkins. Viking Press, 1965.

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