Robert Smithson Quotations

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.