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 faces cameras
Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
eye sunshine light
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 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.
eye museums surface
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
art ongoing landscape
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
together events information
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
art development metaphysical
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
memories may amnesia
The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
language metaphorical literal
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification
mutation language advertising
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising
mistake mean artist
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem
new-york artist cities
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
artist fit categories
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
language procedures should
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.