All Robert Smithson Quotes
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.
Robert Smithson
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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 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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The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Robert Smithson
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Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
Robert Smithson
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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
Robert Smithson
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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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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Robert Smithson
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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson
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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.
Robert Smithson
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Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.
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