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Museums Quotes by Robert Smithson
- Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
- History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
- The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
- The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
- Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
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