Author: Robert Smithson

Quotes

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

- Robert Smithson

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

- Robert Smithson

Nature is never finished.

Nature is never finished.

- Robert Smithson

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

- Robert Smithson

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

- Robert Smithson

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

- Robert Smithson

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

- Robert Smithson

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

- Robert Smithson

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

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

- Robert Smithson

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