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Robert Smithson

"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."

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"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."

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"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."

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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."

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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."

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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

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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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