An artist might advance specifically to get lost
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"In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost" is a dictum by American artist Robert Smithson recorded in the essay "A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art" (1968).
The full passage reads:
- "In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations."
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