Robert Smithson Quotes


32 quotes:

"Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things."
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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 heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
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"The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality."
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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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"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 ideal."
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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 landscapes for finished art ."
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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 idea in somebody's head."
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"Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence."
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"Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification."
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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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"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."
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"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."
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