Robert Smithson

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#everybody #nobody #nought #zero

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #confined #output #their #themselves

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#causing #forget #future #instead #like

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#becomes #charge #disengaged #gallery #loses

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#demolished #emotion #glance #suggested #words

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art history #explosive #faster #history #into

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#development #dialectical #metaphysical #should

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#categories #expected #fit #fraudulent #into

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#fall #feeble #function #into #meaning

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. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#convalescence #going #kind #lights #neutral