smithson Quotes

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

“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 longer with us.”

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”

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

“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.”