Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.