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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

Nature is never finished.

Nature is never finished.

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...

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...

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

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...

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

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

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...

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

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...

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...

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

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

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output 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.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

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...

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a...

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a...