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Robert Smithson Quotes

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Robert Smithson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Time Museums Abstract Own

The biggest reason people don't do things is knowledge. Many people don't go to the gym because they don't know what the heck they're doing.

Knowledge People Doing Gym Go Know

Whether you are a man or a woman, when you're loved, you look good and are happier.

Good Woman Man Loved You Look

My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.

Architecture Mountains School College

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Me You Know Passionate Secret Meal

I've always felt like I can dance.

Dance I Can Always Like Felt

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

Money Never Everything Creatively

Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.

Culture Argument Living Atmosphere

I remember looking out into the sea of phone lights as Chris Martin belted 'Yellow' on the piano and deciding that that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

Life Sea Yellow Looking Rest Phone

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

World Things Happen Circumstances

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

Alison Mosshart

Doing Trying You Want Same Always

At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid. It was really difficult. I was going to study history, but the professor asked me some questions I didn't understand, and I didn't dare to ask what they meant. I left university and went to work in the Post.

Work History Me Questions Understand

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

Music I Am Doing Long Know Want

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