Art Quote by Alexander Calder Download Open image “Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.” — Alexander Calder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Color Colors Compose Form Forms Just Motions
Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones... — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. — Marc Chagall 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… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy). — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
