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Quote by Robert Smithson
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art hab

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. – 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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architecture
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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. – Arthur Erickson

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architecture

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. – Victor Hugo

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architecture

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. – Harry von Zell

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architecture

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but thats what I studied in college. Thats what I always wanted to do. – Parker Stevenson

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architecture

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All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldnt read it the way you read history or science. – Leslie Fiedler

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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