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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
— Robert Smithson
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
— Robert Smithson
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
— Robert Smithson
As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.
— Robert Smithson
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
— Robert Smithson
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
— Robert Smithson
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
— Robert Smithson
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
— Robert Smithson
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
— Robert Smithson
I know this sounds weird, but you saved my life.
— L.R.W. Lee
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
— Robert Smithson
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
— Robert Smithson
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
— Robert Smithson
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
— Robert Smithson
The word 'color' means at its origin to 'cover' or 'hide.' Matter eats up light and 'covers' it with a confusion of color.
— Robert Smithson
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
— Robert Smithson
For many artists the universe is expanding;for some it is contracting. — Robert Smithson
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
— Robert Smithson
Hey, watch it! You almost hit me in the head!
— L.R.W. Lee
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
— Robert Smithson
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
— Robert Smithson
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
— Robert Smithson
Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
— 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.
— Robert Smithson
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
— Robert Smithson
You're not crazy. And yes, cow farts chase the fog away. The only problem is the smell.
— L.R.W. Lee
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
— James Smithson
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
— Robert Smithson
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
— Robert Smithson
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
— Robert Smithson
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
— Robert Smithson
Give it a minute or two for the weaction to begin.
— L.R.W. Lee
Nature is never finished.
— Robert Smithson
Why do you care for them?"I think it's because I feel loved. I feel like they understand me." - Andy Smithson — L.R.W. Lee
The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
— Robert Smithson
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
— Robert Smithson
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.
— Robert Smithson
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men,
— James Smithson
