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• from The Papers of David Smith, “Questions to Students”

  3. Are you a balanced person with many interests and diversions?

  11. Have you examined the echoes of childhood and first learning, which may have once given you the solutions? Are any of these expectancies still operating on your choices?
  
  15. Do you think you owe your teachers anything, or Picasso or Matisse or Brancusi or Mondrian or Kandinsky?
  
  16. Do you think you work should be aggressive? Do you think this an attribute? Can it be developed?
  
  18. Do you think that your own time and now is the greatest in the history of art, or do you excuse your own lack of full devotion with the half belief that some other time would have been better for you to make art?
  
  20. In the secret dreams of attainment have you faced each dream for its value on your own basis, or do you harbor inherited inspirations of the bourgeoisie or those of false history or those of critics?
  
  32. Are you saddled with nature propaganda?
  
  35. Are you afraid to work from your own experience without leaning on the crutches of subject and the rational?
  
  36. Or do you think that you are unworthy or that your life has not been dramatic enough or your understanding not classic enough, or do you think that art comes from Mount Parnassus or France or from an elite level beyond you?
  

  • #David Smith
  • #Art
  4 Jan 2012 / 2 notes