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Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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

— Robert Smithson

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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. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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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

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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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

— Robert Smithson

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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

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