"About my method of work: first it’s the……" — Alexander Calder
"About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy)."
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28 Quotes by Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder has 28 quotes on this site.
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
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My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
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Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that…
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To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To…
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The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know…
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The next step in sculpture is motion.
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My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean…
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A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all…
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When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
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The basis of everything I do is the universe.
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More Elation Quotes
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love,…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency.…
— Anderson Cooper
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
— Doug Larson
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To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser…
— Vince Lombardi
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There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say:…
— Jessica Powers
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Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within…
— Norman Mailer
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For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an…
— Unknown Author
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Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
— Amy Lowell
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air…
— Adriana Trigiani
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
— Amy Lowell
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