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Robert Smithson Quotes: Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
         

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


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



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

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



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 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.



Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future



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

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



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

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



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

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



Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.



Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.



Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.



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.

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.





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In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.



What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.



No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.



Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.



Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.



Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.



Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.



I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.



It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.




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