Robert Smithson Quotes and its meanings

What does Robert Smithson write about?

Robert Smithson has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about architecture, art, future & gardening. People always share Architecture quotes, Art quotes, future & gardening from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Robert Smithson?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Robert Smithson.

• Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
• Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
• 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.