Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. Robert Smithson More Quotes by Robert Smithson More Quotes From Robert Smithson Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. Robert Smithson artist matter museums 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 Robert Smithson holding-on artist facts The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. Robert Smithson national-parks nostalgia artist Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Robert Smithson limits asking art A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. Robert Smithson space white art 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 Robert Smithson garden artist past Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. Robert Smithson metaphysical development art Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye. Robert Smithson cameras eye faces An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. Robert Smithson certain emotion artist For many artists the universe is expanding; Robert Smithson contracting expanding artist The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. Robert Smithson architecture development numbers Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. Robert Smithson explosives faster art Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye. Robert Smithson sunshine light eye There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this wilderness of mechanical reproduction for many years, I do not know which world to start with. I have seen fellow artists driven to the point of frenzy by photography. Robert Smithson photography artist years Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem Robert Smithson artist mistake mean As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment. Robert Smithson cameras artist long From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. Robert Smithson artist cities new-york Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. Robert Smithson procedures language should Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Robert Smithson categories fit artist Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. Robert Smithson mental-illness illness process
