Top 34 Quotes by Robert Smithson

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

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

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

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

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

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

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

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

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