Robert Smithson Quotes

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

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Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

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History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

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Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

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Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

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The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

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Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

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The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

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Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

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An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

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A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

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From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

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When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

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I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

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