Quotes about Robert Smithson

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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