When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise! — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
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 of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures, and surrounded and interlarded with wisps of gaseous condition, and some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy). — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
