Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithsonwas an American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth2 January 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Smithson quotes about
museums looks tombs
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
erosion ideas rivers
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.
lines doe development
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
museums may vacancy
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
one-day important photograph
One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.
artist parks facts
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
ideas world language
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head
hopeless form seems
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
zero artist abstraction
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
numbers development urban
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
artist national-parks nostalgia
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
enigma explanation
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
together events information
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
mistake mean artist
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem