Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert SmithsonLet's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
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