"When everything goes right a mobile is a……" — Alexander Calder
"When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!"
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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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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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The basis of everything I do is the universe.
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More Dances Quotes
This quote is filed under Dances Quotes,
one of 214 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
— James Broughton
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And…
— Aaron Huey
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light,…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown…
— Julia Cameron
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He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is…
— Sam Manekshaw
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Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
— A. E. Housman
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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody…
— Samuel Johnson
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