David Smith - Painting Quotes

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[learning European modern art by seeing it in the art-magazine 'Cahiers d'art'].... my heritage was all those things; [De Stijl, Constructivism, Cubism, Surrealism] simultaneously, so I am all those things. I hope with a very strong intellectual regard for Cubism, and an admiration for it, because it was great at a particular time. It was both painting and sculpture. It was a great point of liberation in both painting and sculpture, and especially sculpture.

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Visions are from the imaginative mind, sculpture can come from the found discards in nature, from sticks and stones and parts and pieces, assembled or monolithic, solid form, open form, lines of form, or, like a painting, the illusion of form. And sculpture can be painting and painting can be sculpture..

David Smith

Gradually [late 1920's] the canvas became the base and the painting was a sculpture.

David Smith