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Robert Smithson Quotes: Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
         

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


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



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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.



Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.



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.



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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.



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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.



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

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