64 Quotes by Robert Smithson

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

One’s mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

Art’s development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

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

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Let’s face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera’s eye.