#he

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. ↗

— Yeardley Smith

#create #few #monster #then #whine

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

#earth #error #evil #found #greatness

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other. ↗

— James Smithson

#laws #learned #other #particle #planet

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #confined #output #their #themselves

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

— Robert Smithson

#fall #feeble #function #into #meaning

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

— Robert Smithson

#artist #asking #confinement #cultural #curator

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#events #finally #held #history #information

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#act #dualism #healing #heals #here

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#find #head #idea #itself #language