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

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
architecture
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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. – David Allan Coe

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architecture

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know Ive paid homage to it many times in my drawings. – Jim Woodring

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architecture

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think its magical. – Maya Lin

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architecture

To me, a building – if its beautiful – is the love of one man, hes made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. – Martha Graham

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architecture

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Life is about using the whole box of crayons. – RuPaul

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. – Richard Steele

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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. – Louis Aragon

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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine

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smile