“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

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”

Robert Smithson

“Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. Hallways lead the viewer to things once called 'pictures' and 'statues." Anachronisms hang and protrude from every angle. Themes without meani...”

Robert Smithson

“Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition , rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. So...”

Robert Smithson

“Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around.”

Robert Smithson