#her

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

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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

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

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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

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

— Robert Smithson

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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art #dialectic #finished #landscapes #objects

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

— Robert Smithson

#collection #everywhere #eye #generalizations #mobilize

What other people think about me is not my business. ↗