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

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

- Robert Smithson

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

- 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.

- 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.

- Robert Smithson

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

- Robert Smithson

Nature is never finished.

- Robert Smithson

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

- Robert Smithson