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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

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Nature is never finished.

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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

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History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

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

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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

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

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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 2nd, 1938

Died: July 20th, 1973

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