David Smith Short Quotes

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Sculpture is as free as the mind; as complex as life..

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An arrogant independence to create is my only motivation.

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Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with.

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

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I would like to make sculpture that would rise from water and tower in the air
- that carried conviction and vision that had not existed before..

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I maintain my identity by regular work, there is always labor when inspiration has fled, but inspiration returns quicker when identity and the work stream are maintained.

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This vision cannot be of a single mind – a single concept, it is a small tooth in the gear of man..
.. which to each man, one at a time, offers a marvel of close communion

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It will say that in peace we have time that a man has vision, has been fed, has worked..
.. That hands and minds and tools and material made a symbol to the elevation of vision

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I want sculpture to show the wonder of man, that flowing water, rocks, clouds
vegetation have for the man in peace who glories in existence... Its existence will be its statement

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.. that men could view as natural, without reverence or awe but to whom such things were natural
because they were statements of peaceful pursuit – and joined in the phenomenon of life

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