Visions are from the imaginative mind, sculpture can come f… - David Smith

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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..

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David Smith (March 9, 1906 – May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.

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Alternative Names: David Rowland Smith • Deṿid Smit • David Roland Smith • W Smith • David RoLand Smith • David Smith (1906-1965) • Roland David Smith

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The material called iron or steel I hold in high respect. What it can do in arriving at a form economically, no other material can do.. .What associations it possesses are those of this century: power, structure, movement, progress, suspension, destruction, brutality. [quote, early 1950's]

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..

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

Visions are from the imaginative mind, sculpture can come from the found discards in nature, from sticks and stones and parts and pieces, assembled o… - David Smith

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