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