 Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . |
| The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. |
| Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal. |
| Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. |
| Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. |
| Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. |
| Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head. |
| Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. |
| The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. |
| History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. |
| Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. |
| Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. |
| Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. |
| Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. |
