Only appearances are fertile; they are gateways to the primordial. Every artist owes his existance to such mirages. The ponderous illusions of solidarity, the non-existance of things, is what the artist takes for 'materials'.

Robert Smithson, Incidents of Mirror Travel in the Yucatan, 1969.
Taken from: Smithson, Robert, The Collected Writings, Flam, Jack (ed.), University of California Press, Berkley, Page 132, by
Mannoni, Laurent, & Nekes, Werner, & Warner, Marina, Eyes, Lies and Illusions, Hayward Gallery, 2004, page 13.