Let'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 SmithsonObjects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert SmithsonThe slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
Robert Smithson