Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
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Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.Robert Smithson
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
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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.
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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
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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.
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History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
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