Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert SmithsonOne's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.
Robert SmithsonThe museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
Robert SmithsonThe museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Robert Smithson