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

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

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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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Robert Smithson
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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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Robert Smithson
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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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Art

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. – Jack White

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Art

When art wins, everyone wins. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Art is spirituality in drag. – Jennifer Yane

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Art

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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. – Marshall McLuhan

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Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. – Fran Lebowitz

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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyces view of Everyman as victim. – Robert Anton Wilson

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My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. – Roseanne Barr

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