Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Nature is never finished.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.