Robert Smithson Quotes
32 Robert Smithson quotes:
"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical."
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"Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories."
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"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 should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence."
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"Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head."
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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."
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"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."
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"An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words."
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"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
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"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."
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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."
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"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
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"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
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"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence."
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"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."
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"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."
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"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."
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"Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time."
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"A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world."
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"Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought."
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