"If you can imagine a thing, conjure it……" — Alexander Calder
"If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it."
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28 Quotes by Alexander Calder
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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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About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).
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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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More Conjure Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat…
— Unknown Author
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United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the…
— Unknown Author
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I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free…
— George Washington
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We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few…
— Deepak Chopra
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Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of…
— Bryan Beller
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I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over…
— Rod Stewart
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Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom…
— George Washington
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never…
— Margaret Heffernan
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