"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."

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

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“Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.”

Source : Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books
“Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.”
“At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislatorâ€™s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?”

Source : "At What Point Do People Revolt?" by Erick Erickson, www.redstate.com. March 31, 2009.
“Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul.”
“Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.”
“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
“That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how we're telling a tale, because we are a heightened reality on Hannibal. There is a larger-than-life quality to the storytelling when it gets into particulars. I like the idea of being able to dismiss reality, depending on if we can sell it as part of the story.”
“When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.”

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