Quotes Robert Smithson

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the...

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and...

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought....

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by cert...

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so i...

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical...

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories....

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is....

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into th...

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his ...

Flavin's destruction of classical time and space is based on...

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jer...

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally bi...

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of...

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of...

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monu...

Language operates between literal and metaphorical significa...

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an i...

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not e...

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of...

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

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning i...

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

Nature is never finished....

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongo...