A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
More Quotes from Robert Smithson:
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.Robert Smithson
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
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
Robert Smithson
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
Robert Smithson
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
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.
Robert Smithson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Art Quotes, World QuotesBased on Keywords: disengaged, portable
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Yahoo Serious
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
Benjamin Jowett