Artist Quotes by Alexander Calder

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

— Alexander Calder

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,…

— Alexander Calder

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

— Alexander Calder

Ralph Wiggum: I paint with shapes.

— Alexander Calder

The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of…

— Alexander Calder

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

— Alexander Calder

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it…

— Alexander Calder

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

— Alexander Calder

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea…

— Alexander Calder

About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).

— Alexander Calder

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

— Alexander Calder

I paint with shapes.

— Alexander Calder

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

— Alexander Calder

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

— Alexander Calder

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

— Alexander Calder