“ Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. Robert Smithson
“ The names of minerals and the minerals themselves do not differ from each other, because at the bottom of both the material and the print is the beginning of an abysmal number of fissures. Words and r… Robert Smithson
“ When 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 lon… Robert Smithson
