Nature is never finished.
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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.Robert Smithson
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert Smithson
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
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
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
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