Quotes by Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

A camera is wild in just about anybody’s hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

Eye

Hands

Sight

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.

Art

Space

White

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

Art

Surface

World

Abstraction is everybody’s zero but nobody’s nought.

Abstraction

Artist

Zero

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

Artist

Certain

Emotion

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

Art

Explosives

Faster

Art’s development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Art

Development

Metaphysical

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Artist

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Architecture

Art

Output

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

Artist

Cameras

Long

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Abstraction

Amnesia

Architecture

Art

Artist

Asking

Bogs

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Quotes by Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

A camera is wild in just about anybody’s hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

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

Abstraction is everybody’s zero but nobody’s nought.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

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

Art’s development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

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