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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Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of...

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of...

Nature is never finished.

Nature is never finished.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

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

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

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition,...

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition,...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for...

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for...

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

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

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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...

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

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

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

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...

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 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.

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

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