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Great ... So neither of us knows anything about dragons ... We're so going to die! — L.R.W. Lee

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

I happen to believe that one's success comes only from responsibility, diligence and dignity. - King Hercalon V, King of Oomaldee — L.R.W. Lee

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. — Robert Smithson

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. — Robert Smithson

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness. — James Smithson

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. — Robert Smithson

You make time for what is important to you. - Glaucin — L.R.W. Lee

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment. — Robert Smithson

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. — Robert Smithson

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. — Robert Smithson

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. — 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

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. — 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

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. — 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

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — 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

Please don't say any more, you're scaring me. - Andy Smithson — L.R.W. Lee

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

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. — 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

But Dad! It really did happen! I was transported to a Laboratory in an old stone castle and there was a wizard in blue robes with a floppy hat and ... — L.R.W. Lee

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

Why demand ye of me where the land of Oomaldee lies? Did they do the same of C.S. Lewis and his Narnia? — L.R.W. Lee

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light. — Robert Smithson