David Smith Art Quotes - (8 quotes)

David Smith - From the Art category:

Art can't be made by a poormouth. (David Smith)

David Smith - From the Art category:

Art is a paradox that has no laws to bind it... When art exists it becomes tradition. When it is created, it represents a unity that did no exist before. (David Smith)

David Smith - From the Artists category:

The artist has been the element of nature, and the arbiter of nature; he who has sat on a cloud and viewed it from afar, but at the same time has identified himself as one of nature's parts. (David Smith)

David Smith - From the Audience category:

The true artist views nature from his own time. The hostile audience views nature in the rosy past. (David Smith)

David Smith - From the Authority category:

My parents were every artist before me whose work I knew. (David Smith)

David Smith - From the Conviction category:

From the artist there is no conscious effort to find universal truth or beauty, no effort to analyze other men's minds in order to speak for them. His act in art is an act of personal conviction and identity. (David Smith)

David Smith - From the Imagination category:

If there is truth in art, it is the artist's own truth. If beauty is involved, it is only the metaphor of imagination. (David Smith)

David Smith - From the Questions category:

What is art? We ought to very simply let it be what the artist says it is. (David Smith)