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Robert Smithson Quotes

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

Robert Smithson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Nobody Abstraction Zero Everybody

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

Challenges Want My Own Try Difficult

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

Start Become Out Jokes Things Big

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

Win You Go Way Republican See

The first time I saw Lena Dunham was in 'Tiny Furniture.'

Jennifer Konner

Time Furniture First Time First Saw

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

Good Alone Great Service Story Look

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

Hell Heaven Canada Australia Mean

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

Humor Craft Ability Educated Imagery

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Morning History World September Axis

He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

Me Song Thinking Loved Doing Play

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Love Me Blessed Feel Write Always

I gathered as much reading material about Aung San Suu Kyi and about Burma as I could. And I read every article and every book she had written. I also had 200 hours of footage of her to watch. I tried to discover who were her heroes and where he desire and strength to pursue democracy in a non-violent fashion came from.

Strength Democracy Fashion Reading

I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.

People You Conversation New Know

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