Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Robert SmithsonFrom the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
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