Robert Smithson Quotes

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Robert Smithson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WordsMeaningFallMentalOwnBanal

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

Joe Namath

SportsOutdoorsFocusedAthletics

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

Andreja Pejic

WorldMakeupModelingContracts

I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.

Melvyn Bragg

I AmYearsJustAmDecided

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

Andy Sawford

WorkGovernmentPeopleInitiative

The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.

Steve Erickson

ResponsibilityThinkingQuestionsSee

I know for a fact that if I could do only music, I'd be out of my mind, insane. I'd be stressed-out; there's so much work. I mean, you work constantly; there are no breaks, really. If you're not promoting a record, you're making one. If you're not making one, you're touring. If you're not touring, you're doing photo shoots and prep work.

Aly Michalka

WorkMusicMindDoingYouKnow

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

Stephen Chbosky

MomentPeoplePressureFeelBe Nice

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen.

Tracy Kidder

LiveSmallEnoughLongYouPlace

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Rockwell Kent

BeautifulEyesWorldThanHisLess

I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.

Roger Zelazny

StoryThoughtEndSomeoneDoingHim

Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie and Kim Novak.

Rory MacLean

WestWorkingBerlinDavid Bowie

To get the feel of the polar night, I went back to Spitsbergen in winter. I went snowshoeing in the dark and experimented with headlamps and climbed a glacier in driving snow.

Michelle Paver

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