Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head
- Robert Smithson
More Quotes By Robert Smithson
- A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or...
- Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking...
- A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in...
- Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause...
- When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed...
- Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions...
- Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
- One’s mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks,...
- Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
- Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
- Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
- Establish enigmas, not explanations.
- Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
- Nature is never finished.
- History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they...
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