Sculpture is as free as the mind; as complex as life.. - David Smith

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.

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

Possibly steel is so beautiful because of all the movement associated with it, its strength and functions.. .Yet it is also brutal: the rapist, the murderer and death-dealing giants are also its offspring. [quote, early 1950's]