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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
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Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,…
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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head
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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…
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The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
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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…
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