"For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting."

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.34, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

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“I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.”
“I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.”
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
“It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.”
“Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.”

Source : "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.
“Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.”
“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.”

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