Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
Robert SmithsonThe museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the 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