6 Quotes by Robert Smithson about art
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Establish enigmas, not explanations.
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A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
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Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
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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.
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