Robert Smithson

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

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

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.