Franz Kline on "why"

"It just seems as though there are forms in some experience in your life that have an excitement for you."

From Interviews with Artists, by David Sylvester

David Smith on inspirations

"They can begin with any idea.  They can begin with a found object; they can begin with no object; they can begin sometimes even when I'm sweeping the floor and I stumble and kick a few parts that happen to be thrown into an alignment that sets me off on thinking.  It sets off a vision of how it would finish if it all had that kind of accidental beauty to it.  They go that way, they go anyway."

David Smith, in Interviews with American Artists by David Sylvester

Grayland (1976), Richard Diebenkorn

Green and White (1969), Sandra Blow

Banner (1962), Larry Zox

Second Two-Panel Horizontal (1958), Alfred Leslie

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Dongo (1964), Julius Bissier

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Edge of August (1953), Mark Tobey

Double Image 2177/2177A (1967), Louise Nevelson

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Watergame (1955), Jack Tworkov

NY Times review of UBS gallery show, September 2009

Untitled (1981), Conrad Marca-Relli

Untitled (1954), Emerson Woelffer

New York City W1 (1947), Aaron Siskind

Martha's Vineyard 34C (1950), Aaron Siskind

New River Watercolor Series 1, #5 (1988), John Cage

Widow's Lament (1942), David Smith

#1 (1974), Elmer Bischoff

Untitled #13 (c. 1950), Richard Diebenkorn

Natura Morta (1956), Giorgio Morandi

Lighthouse at Two Lights (1929), Edward Hopper