6 Quotes by Robert Smithson about art


  • Author Robert Smithson
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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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    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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