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Robert Smithson

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

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"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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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."

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Robert Smithson
"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."

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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
"Nature is never finished."

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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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