64 Quotes by Robert Smithson

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

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

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

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.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.