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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


#convalescence #going #kind #lights #neutral

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


Robert Smithson


#everybody #nobody #nought #zero

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.


Robert Smithson


#artists #confined #output #their #themselves

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.


Robert Smithson


#causing #forget #future #instead #like

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


Robert Smithson


#content #form #hopelessly #inadequate #questions

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 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 operates between literal and metaphorical signification.


Robert Smithson


#language #literal #metaphorical #operates #signification






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