The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality..

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits..

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

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults….

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus rein….

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

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting..

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

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light..

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

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

There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this wilderness ….

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness..

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

Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was li….

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

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph..

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information..

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