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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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Art
category

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Times malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Category:
Art

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. – Emir Kusturica

Category:
Art

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Art

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. – Paulo Coelho

Category:
Art

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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. – William Penn

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As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Perfection

If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. – Daniel Marsh, 1950

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Television

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. – Robert Benchley

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funny