Quotes about Robert Smithson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Nature is never finished.

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

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

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

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Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

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

#Robert Smithson