Art Quotes by Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

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.

Art

Space

White

Robert Smithson

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Art

Surface

World

Robert Smithson

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Art

Explosives

Faster

Robert Smithson

Art’s development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Art

Development

Metaphysical

Robert Smithson

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Architecture

Art

Output

Robert Smithson

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Art

Asking

Limits

Robert Smithson

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Art

Direct Effect

Elements

Robert Smithson

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

Art

Landscape

Ongoing

Robert Smithson

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Architecture

Art

Sculpture

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Sallust

Henry Abbey

Simon Critchley

Dennis Hopper

Stephen Covey

Abstraction

Amnesia

Architecture

Art

Artist

Asking

Bogs

Cameras

Categories

Causes

Certain

Cities

Contracting

Corny

Development

Direct Effect

Doe

Elements

Emotion

End Of The World

Enigma

Erosion

Events

Expanding

Explanation

Explosives

Eye

Faces

Facts

Fall

Faster

Finished

Fit

Form

Garden

Hands

Holding On

Hopeless

Ideas

Illness

Important

Landscape

Language

Light

Limits

Long

Looks

Loss

Matter

May

Mean

Memories

Mental Illness

Metaphorical

Metaphysical

Mistake

Museums

Mutation

National Parks

New York

Nostalgia

Numbers

One Day

Ongoing

Output

Parks

Past

Photograph

Photography

Procedures

Process

Reality

Rivers

Sculpture

Seems

Should

Sight

Space

Sunshine

Surface

Together

Vacancy

White

World

Years

Zero

Art Quotes by Robert Smithson

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.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Art’s development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

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

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

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