Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. - Robert Smithson
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
- Robert Smithson
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. - Robert Smithson
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. - Robert Smithson
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. - Robert Smithson
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
Establish enigmas, not explanations. - Robert Smithson
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
Nature is never finished. - Robert Smithson
Nature is never finished.
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. - Robert Smithson
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.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. - Robert Smithson
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. - Robert Smithson
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
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