A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.
Robert SmithsonThe museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
Robert SmithsonParks 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 Smithson