Eye Quotes by Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

A camera is wild in just about anybody’s hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

Eye

Hands

Sight

Robert Smithson

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

Cameras

Eye

Faces

Robert Smithson

Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye.

Eye

Light

Sunshine

Robert Smithson

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Artist

Eye

Museums

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Larry Norman

Robert Crais

Mary Roach

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Neil Simon

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

Eye Quotes by Robert Smithson

A camera is wild in just about anybody’s hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

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

Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye.

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

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Mary Roach

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