The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. Robert Smithson Read Quote
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Robert Smithson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. Robert Smithson Read Quote
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody’s own vacancy. Robert Smithson Read Quote
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Robert Smithson Read Quote
