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- "A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of ..."
- "A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a ..."
- "Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. "
- "An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. "
- "Apart from the ideal gardens of the past, and their modern counterparts - national and ..."
- "Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into ..."
- "Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. "
- "Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. "
- "Artists that like Horror tend toward the emotive, while artists who like Sci-fic tend toward ..."
- "Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. "
- "Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of ..."
- "Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition ..."
- "Flavin's destruction of classical time and space is based on an entirely new notion of ..."
- "From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered ..."
- "History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. "
- "History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in ..."
- "I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements ..."
- "Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments ..."
- "Judd's sensibility encompasses geology, and mineralogy. He has an excellent collection of geologic maps, which ..."
- "Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. "
- "Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. "
- "Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an ..."
- "Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. "
- "Many architectural concepts found in science-fiction have nothing to do with science or fiction, instead ..."
- "Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. "
- "Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. "
- "Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "
- "Nature is never finished. "
- "Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished ..."
- "Once the work of art is totally neutralized, ineffective, abstracted, safe, and politically lobotomized it ..."
- "Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. "
- "Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ..."
- "Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. "
- "Reducing representation to writing does not bring one closer to the physical world . "
- "Simple statements are often based on language fears, and sometimes result in dogma or a ..."
- "Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got ..."
- "The concealed surfaces in some of Judd's works are hideouts for time. His art vanishes ..."
- "The function of the warden-curator is to separate art from the rest of society. "
- "The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize ..."
- "The museum undermines one's confidence in sense data and erodes the impression of textures upon ..."
- "The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that ..."
- "The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is ..."
- "The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for ..."
- "The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom ..."
- "The walls of the quarry did look dangerous. Cracked, broken, shattered; the walls threatened to ..."
- "Through direct observation, rather than explanation, many of these artists have developed way to treat ..."
- "Unlike the hyper-prosaism of Morris, Flavin, LeWitt, and Judd, the works of Thek, Kauffman, and ..."
- "Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. "
- "When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is ..."
- "Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. "
- "Yet, discursive literalness is apt to be a container for a radical metaphor. "
