Robert Smithson quotes
Robert Smithson was an American sculptor and land artist, best known for his groundbreaking work with earthworks. His most famous piece, the Spiral Jetty, redefined the relationship between art, nature, and landscape. He explored themes of entropy, the environment, and the passage of time in art. Here are 37 of his quotes:
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
Robert Smithson
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. Hallways lead the viewer to things once called 'pictures' and 'statues." Anachronisms hang and protrude from every angle. Themes without meaning press on the eye. Multifarious nothings permute into false windows (frames) that open up into a variety of blanks. Stale images cancel one's perception and deviate one's motivation. Blind and senseless, one continues wandering around the remains of Europe, only to end in that massive deception 'the art history of the recent past'
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson
Occupation: American SculptorBorn: January 2, 1938
Died: July 20, 1973
Quotes count: 37
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