64 Quotes by 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

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification