From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

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

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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

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

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I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

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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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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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