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The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Robert Smithson

Biography

Author Profession: Artist
Nationality: American
Born: January 2, 1938
Died: July 20, 1973

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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
Robert Smithson

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
Robert Smithson

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
Robert Smithson

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
Robert Smithson

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Robert Smithson

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
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.
Robert Smithson

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