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Explore our hand-picked selection of 46 inspiring quotes by Robert Smithson.

About Robert Smithson

  • Born: January 2, 1938
  • Died: July 20, 1973
  • Occupation: Artist
    • A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. but cameras have a life of their own. cameras care nothing about cults or isms. they are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. they are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.
    Eye Sight Hands
    Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification
    Artist Language Metaphorical
    Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising
    Artist Mutation Language
    From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the new jersey suburbs bordered by the new york city skyline.
    New York Artist Cities
    There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. as an artist who has been lost in this wilderness of mechanical reproduction for many years, i do not know which world to start with. i have seen fellow artists driven to the point of frenzy by photography.
    Photography Artist Years
    Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. photographing it with my instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. the sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my instamatic into my eye.
    Eye Sunshine Light
    Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
    Fall Bogs Corny
    Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
    Art Faster Explosives
    The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
    Numbers Development Architecture
    An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
    Artist Emotion Certain
    Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
    Eye Cameras Faces
    Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
    Mental Illness Illness Process
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