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Robert Smithson

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

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

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"Nature is never finished."
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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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"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
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"Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification."
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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."
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"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."
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"An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words."
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"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum."
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"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
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"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."
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