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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

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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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Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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

— 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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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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