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Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.
- Robert Smithson
#Advertising
#Because
#Becomes
#Language
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
- Robert Smithson
#Art
#Finished
#Landscapes
#Objects
#Park
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
- Robert Smithson
#Going
#Matter
#Museum
#Visiting
#Void
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
- Robert Smithson
#Art
#Development
#Metaphysical
#Should
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
- Robert Smithson
#Everything
#Like
#Looks
#Museum
#Museums
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
- Robert Smithson
#Certain
#Emotion
#Glance
#Words
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
- Robert Smithson
#Condition
#Fact
#Ideal
#In Fact
#Nature
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
- Robert Smithson
#Collection
#Everywhere
#Eye
#Museum
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
- Robert Smithson
#Derived
#Mental
#Physical
#Things
#Words
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
- Robert Smithson
#Art
#Confined
#Output
#Themselves
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
#Art
#Day
#Exist
#I Am
#Representation
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
- Robert Smithson
#Act
#Ground
#Memories
#Past
#Reality
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
- Robert Smithson
#End
#Find
#Head
#Language
#World
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
- Robert Smithson
#Future
#Monuments
#New
#Past
#Remember
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
- Robert Smithson
#Bliss
#Eternal
#Heavenly
#Nostalgia
#Our
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
- Robert Smithson
#Art
#History
#Less
#Rest
#Time
Nature is never finished.
- Robert Smithson
#Finished
#Nature
#Never
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
- Robert Smithson
#Development
#Does
#Line
#Nature
#Rather
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 reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
- Robert Smithson
#Gardening
#Past
#Political
#Values
#Work
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
- Robert Smithson
#Art
#Artist
#Limits
#Own
#Place
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
- Robert Smithson
#Architecture
#Art
#Habit
#Painting
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
#Art
#Gallery
#Outside
#Work
#World
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