Top 34 Quotes by Robert Smithson

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

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

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Nature is never finished.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

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

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

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