"Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought."

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

#Zero Quotes #Artist Quotes

“My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."”

Source : Stark Young (1935). “Feliciana”
“As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.”
“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”
“My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.”
“I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.”
“The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.”
“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.”
“I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'”

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