Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.Robert Smithson
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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
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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.
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
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