All Robert Smithson Quotes
- Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. Inspirational
- 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,… Absorb
- The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is. Amnesia
- The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. Architecture
- Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Art
- Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. Development
- Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. Banal
- A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through… Art
- An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. Certain
- Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. Art
- History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. Biographical
- Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem Any
- Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising Advertising
- Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up… Apparatus
- Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head End
- History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy Abstract
- Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification Inspirational
- Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future Cause
- Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. Content
- The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. Becomes