Robert Smithson Quotes

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Robert Smithson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 2, 1938 - July 20, 1973

Topics

ArtistsFitExpectedFraudulent

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

John Mortimer

YourselfWritingRuleOnlyValidity

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

Anna May Wong

TimeSoulPictureYouLoseYour

'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened.

Rithy Panh

MemorySameYearsFilmHowGestures

As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money and the studio, and the marketing and publicity. These are all different jobs that have to be learned and done as well as possible. The celebrity part rarely touches a director.

Mike Nichols

MoneyJobMarketingDonePossible

Conductors are performers.

Michael Tilson Thomas

PerformersConductors

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Joyce Maynard

ChildrenMyselfSunParentsGrow

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Josh Homme

JusticeMistakeEqualityLooking

I guess I'm old-fashioned.

Jonathan Miles

Old-FashionedGuess

One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. 'This is fake,' she whispered. 'Don't come back here again.'

Jose Antonio Vargas

TimeDayBikeGreenFakeFriends

Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.

Cliff Chiang

CharacterWomanLongPerfectWonder

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Clare Boothe Luce

FreeNeverStrengthsOppressed

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Bob Riley

LifeSuccessFutureSchoolChild

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