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1. "Establish enigmas, not explanations." ~ Robert Smithson
2. "Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem." ~ Robert Smithson
3. "Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum." ~ Robert Smithson
4. "The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality." ~ Robert Smithson
5. "Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is." ~ Robert Smithson
6. "Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art ." ~ Robert Smithson
7. "Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories." ~ Robert Smithson
8. "The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness." ~ Robert Smithson
9. "Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought." ~ Robert Smithson
10. "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
11. "From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline." ~ Robert Smithson
12. "Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content." ~ Robert Smithson
13. "An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words." ~ Robert Smithson
14. "Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time." ~ Robert Smithson
15. "Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical." ~ Robert Smithson
16. "Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning." ~ Robert Smithson
17. "Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits." ~ Robert Smithson
18. "History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information." ~ Robert Smithson
19. "History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy." ~ Robert Smithson
20. "I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation." ~ Robert Smithson
21. "Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification." ~ Robert Smithson
22. "Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head." ~ Robert Smithson
23. "Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising." ~ Robert Smithson
24. "The word ‘color' means at its origin to ‘cover' or ‘hide.' Matter eats up light and ‘covers' it with a confusion of color." ~ Robert Smithson
25. "It's like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you're in a hurry to get the day over with so you can start the next one. You tell yourself you're going to do lots of positive things. But the next day is just like the one before. Sometimes it goes on for weeks." ~ Robert Smithson

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If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers."
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