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> [One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now… But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/one-day-the-photograph-is-going-to-become-even-more-important-than-it/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

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## More by Robert Smithson

> [A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/a-camera-is-wild-in-just-about-anybody-s-hands-therefore-one-must-set/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [“It’s like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you’re in a hurry to get the day over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/it-s-like-the-end-of-the-day-where-you-feel-nothing-has-been-achieved/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/art-history-is-less-explosive-than-the-rest-of-history-so-it-sinks/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/instead-of-causing-us-to-remember-the-past-like-the-old-monuments-the/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/history-is-representational-while-time-is-abstract-both-of-these/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [Establish enigmas, not explanations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/establish-enigmas-not-explanations/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/language-should-be-an-ever-developing-procedure-and-not-an-isolated/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/history-is-a-facsimile-of-events-held-together-by-finally/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/language-thus-becomes-monumental-because-of-the-mutations-of/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/language-operates-between-literal-and-metaphorical-signification-the/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/objects-in-a-park-suggest-static-repose-rather-than-any-ongoing/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/from-the-top-of-the-quarry-cliffs-one-could-see-the-new-jersey/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/artists-are-expected-to-fit-into-fraudulent-categories/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/the-scenic-ideals-that-surround-even-our-national-parks-are-carriers/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

> [When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/when-a-finished-work-of-20th-century-sculpture-is-placed-in-an-18th/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

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