Robert Smithson Quotes & Sayings
34 most famous Robert Smithson quotes and sayings (artist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.”
“Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.”
“Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.”
“Nature is never finished.”
“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”
“History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.”
“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”
“The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.”
“The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.”
“From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.”
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