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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

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The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

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The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

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A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 2nd, 1938

Died: July 20th, 1973

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