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History is representational, while time is abstract both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

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Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

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Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

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

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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

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Nature is never finished.

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

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A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

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

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

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

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Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

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

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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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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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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

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

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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

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