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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."

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"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."

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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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"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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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."
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"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."
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"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
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"Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head."
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"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."
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"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."
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"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."
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"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum."
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