Quote by Robert Smithson
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. - Robert

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. – Robert Smithson

Other quotes by Robert Smithson

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

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Future
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. – Robert Smithson

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gardening
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Other Quotes from
Art
category

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. – Terri Guillemets

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Art

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. – Brad Holland

Category:
Art

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Category:
Art

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighters honor. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

If the day ever comes when everything worth doing has been done, there will be plenty worth undoing. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Perspective

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in todays society. – Samantha Morton

Category:
Society

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. – William Henry Harrison

Category:
Government

I think its best if theres an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008. – Michele Bachmann

Category:
Marriage