Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert SmithsonInstead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Robert SmithsonWhen a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us
Robert Smithson