"The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality."

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Reality Quotes

“It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.”
“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”
“Out of many shared years. One life.”

Source : Richard Clarke Cabot (1915). “Prescriptions, to be Taken Immediately, to be Taken for Life: A Collection of Extracts from Dr. Richard C. Cabot's "What Men Live By," Selected by Edith Motter Lamb”
“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
“The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.”
“What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.”
“We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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