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> [One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/one-s-mind-and-the-earth-are-in-a-constant-state-of-erosion-mental/)

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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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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