Robert Smithson

Artist

1938-01-02

Quotes by Robert Smithson

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

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

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• From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

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

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• History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

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

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