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
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. – Robert Smithson
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. – 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
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. – Andrew Weil