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Robert Smithson

Birthday: January 02, 1938
Deathday: July 20, 1973
Category: American Artist
Type: Artist
National: American

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

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

I am for an art that takes into account the...

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

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification....

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature is never finished....

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

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit...

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is...

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about...

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus,...

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled...

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed...

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are...

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void...

When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in...

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things....

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