"One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason."

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

#Erosion Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.”
“When I caught up, I grabbed Jackâ€™s arm. â€œWhat are you doing here?â€ â€œHiding! Thatâ€™s how you play the game, right? I thought the title hide-and-seek was fairly self-explanatory. Then again, you are blond.â€ â€œSo are you, idiot. Again, what are you doing here?”
“They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?”
“Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides”
“For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.”

Source : George E. P. Box, George C. Tiao (1985). “The collected works of George E.P. Box”, Chapman & Hall/CRC
“I like hair that's been 'worn in' because it's much easier to deal with.... I actually don't like it when [models] come in with this beautiful, thick, glossy hair. I think, Oh, no! I can't do a thing with this!”

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“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
“Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.”

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