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.

Quote by Robert Smithson

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

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

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.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got...

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got...

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Nature is never finished.

Nature is never 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...

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

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...

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...

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

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