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

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

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

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

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

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