"The first inspiration I ever had was the……" — Alexander Calder
"The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system."
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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 Cosmos Quotes
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one of 358 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up…
— Roseanne Barr
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our…
— Carl Sagan
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My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man…
— Benjamin De Casseres
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When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything…
— Nhat Hanh
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony…
— Albert Einstein
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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating…
— Camille Paglia
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Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to…
— Deepak Chopra
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The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
— Poul Anderson
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