Robert Smithson

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20th-century American artist · American

20th-century American artist

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“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”

“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”

“Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.”

“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.”

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Past minerals words Development Straight Art Painting Sculpture Work Political Themselves Artists Output Forget Remember

“The names of minerals and the minerals themselves do not differ from each other, because at the bottom of both the material and the print is the beginning of an abysmal number of fissures. Words an...”
— Robert Smithson
minerals words

“Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.”
— Robert Smithson
Development Straight

“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”
— Robert Smithson
Art Painting Sculpture

“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 ...”
— Robert Smithson
Work Past Political

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”
— Robert Smithson
Themselves Artists Output

“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
Past Forget Remember