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 ex… - David Smith

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.

I knew metal working before I knew Calder [famous for his sculptures, made in sheet metal], and Calder is one of our great men and he is earlier by a few years than any of the rest of us [in American Abstract Expressionism ]. Calder had worked in Paris quite a bit in the early days, though he did go to school here in New York at the Art Student's League.. .After my first year in college I had worked on the assembly line in the Studebaker plants up in Indiana..

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