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

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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an...

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an...

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

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

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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

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

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in...

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in...

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

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

Nature is never finished.

Nature is never finished.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements...

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements...

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered...

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered...

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

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

When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is...

When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is...

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

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

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

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments...

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that...

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that...