Robert Smithson Quotes

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Robert Smithson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MuseumLooksMuseumsEverythingLike

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

John Gordon Sinclair

FunnyYouTryBeing FunnyBeing

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

BrainyProblemDistanceIdealism

I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'

John Joseph Adams

GenerationNextStarIllogicalTrek

There're a lot of rules to basketball.

Amar'e Stoudemire

BasketballRulesLot

I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself.

Sonia Rykiel

PersonalityWomanThinkClothes

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

Steven Hatfill

TrainApartmentFBIWhoFactAgents

I love continuity. I was a continuity nerd growing up. I loved buying a comic in the middle of something and loved digging for back issues or going forward and trying to figure it all out.

Tom King

LoveGrowing UpForwardLovedTrying

Without money nothing gets done.

Mary Lasker

MoneyDoneNothingWithoutGets

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Joseph Brodsky

PastBabyBasketballFeelMeaning

Cycling into work every day is a brilliant way to add in extra training hours without feeling like you are taking up much time.

Jonathan Brownlee

WorkTimeDayTrainingYouFeeling

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

Chester Brown

PeopleMeThinkHurtLegalLoved

I love being on stage more than anything, and I think that's what comes across. I think the most honest representation of any music is to play it right there in front of people. It's a moment - it's all one of a kind, every little part of it. There's no repeat.

Alison Mosshart

LoveMusicMomentPeopleThinkPlay

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