Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
More Quotes by Robert Smithson
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
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.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.