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

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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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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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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

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Education is the art of making man ethical. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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