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Robert Smithson

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

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."

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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

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

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

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Robert Smithson
"Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification."

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Robert Smithson
"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 supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control."

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

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Robert Smithson
"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, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."

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Robert Smithson
"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."

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Robert Smithson
"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."

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Robert Smithson
"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 a kind of esthetic convalescence."

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Robert Smithson
"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."

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