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Robert Smithson Quotes

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories Picture Quote #1

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification Picture Quote #1

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future Picture Quote #1

When a finished work of 20th century 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 Picture Quote #1

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light Picture Quote #1

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues Picture Quote #1

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Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem Picture Quote #1

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information Picture Quote #1

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void Picture Quote #1

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things Picture Quote #1

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is Picture Quote #1

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content Picture Quote #1

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Nature is never finished Picture Quote #1

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development Picture Quote #1

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum Picture Quote #1

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence Picture Quote #1

Art’s development should be dialectical and not metaphysical Picture Quote #1

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words Picture Quote #1

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Abstraction is everybody’s zero but nobody’s nought Picture Quote #1

One’s mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason Picture Quote #1

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy Picture Quote #1

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal Picture Quote #1

When a finished work of 20th century 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 Picture Quote #1

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness Picture Quote #1

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The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art Picture Quote #1

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody’s head Picture Quote #1

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories (Robert Smithson Quotes) Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification (Robert Smithson Quotes) Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. (Robert Smithson Quotes) When a finished work of 20th century 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. (Robert Smithson Quotes) Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light. (Robert Smithson Quotes) Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues (Robert Smithson Quotes) Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem (Robert Smithson Quotes) History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information (Robert Smithson Quotes) Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void (Robert Smithson Quotes) Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things (Robert Smithson Quotes) The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is (Robert Smithson Quotes) Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content (Robert Smithson Quotes) Nature is never finished (Robert Smithson Quotes) Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development (Robert Smithson Quotes) Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum (Robert Smithson Quotes) Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence (Robert Smithson Quotes) Art’s development should be dialectical and not metaphysical (Robert Smithson Quotes) An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words (Robert Smithson Quotes) Abstraction is everybody’s zero but nobody’s nought (Robert Smithson Quotes) One’s mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason (Robert Smithson Quotes) The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy (Robert Smithson Quotes) Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal (Robert Smithson Quotes) When a finished work of 20th century 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 (Robert Smithson Quotes) The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness (Robert Smithson Quotes) The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye (Robert Smithson Quotes) 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 (Robert Smithson Quotes) Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art (Robert Smithson Quotes) Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody’s head (Robert Smithson Quotes) Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future (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 Quotes)

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