List of Robert Smithson Quotes

A Camera Is Wild In Just About Anybody's Hands, Therefore One Must Set Limits. But Cameras Have A Life Of Their Own. Cameras Care Nothing About Cults Or Isms. They Are Indifferent Mechanical Eyes, Ready To Devour Anything In Sight. They Are Lenses Of The Unlimited Reproduction.

Language Operates Between Literal And Metaphorical Signification

Language Thus Becomes Monumental Because Of The Mutations Of Advertising

From The Top Of The Quarry Cliffs, One Could See The New Jersey Suburbs Bordered By The New York City Skyline.

There 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.

Noon-day Sunshine Cinema-ized The Site, Turning The Bridge And The River Into An Over-exposed Picture. Photographing It With My Instamatic 400 Was Like Photographing A Photograph. The Sun Became A Monstrous Light-bulb That Projected A Detached Series Of Stills Through My Instamatic Into My Eye.

Banal Words Function As A Feeble Phenomena That Fall Into Their Own Mental Bogs Of Meaning.

Art History Is Less Explosive Than The Rest Of History, So It Sinks Faster Into The Pulverized Regions Of Time.

The Slurbs, Urban Sprawl, And The Infinite Number, Of Housing Developments Of The Postwar Boom Have Contributed To The Architecture Of Entropy.

An Emotion Is Suggested And Demolished In One Glance By Certain Words.

Let's Face It, The Human Eye Is Clumsy, Sloppy, And Unintelligible When Compared To The Camera's Eye.

Words For Mental Processes Are All Derived From Physical Things.