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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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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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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. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. ↗

— 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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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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