Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
Robert SmithsonLet's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
Robert SmithsonHistory is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
Robert SmithsonThere 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.
Robert Smithson