Tuesday, May 13, 2008

In The Gap (for R.R.)

1925-2008



My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

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.
John Cage:
Having made the empty canvases (R.R.: A canvas is never empty), Rauschenberg became the giver of gifts. Gifts, unexpected and unnecessary, are ways of saying Yes to how it is, a holiday.

To Whom It May Concern:
The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

1 comment:

Seth Tisue said...

Great. "It looked like art — with a goat."