Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithsonwas an American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth2 January 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Smithson quotes about
eye sight hands
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.
artist long cameras
As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.
loss light machines
Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.
artist expanding contracting
For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.
art white space
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.
fall bogs function
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
emotion glances certain
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
artist national-parks nostalgia
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
numbers development urban
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
artist facts prison
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
art faster explosives
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
art sculpture architecture
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
hopeless form seems
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
artist parks facts
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.