About Robert Smithson: Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art.
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
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's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
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.
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
