That is the marvel -- to question but not to understand. Seeing is the true language of perception. Understanding is for words. As far as I am concer… - David Smith

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

Possibly I can explain my own procedure more easily. When I begin a sculpture I'm not always sure how it is going to end. In a way it has a relationship to the work before, it is in continuity with the previous work — it often holds a promise or a gesture toward the one to follow.

..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