Art Quote by Alexander Calder Download Open image “To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.” — Alexander Calder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Engineering Enough Good enough Perfect
“A perfectionist will work on a task or project until he or she feels it is perfect. The downside of doing so is wasted… — Damon Zahariades Copy Share Image
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing.… — Michael Angelakos Copy Share Image
It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. — Larry Wall 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
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 of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures, and surrounded and interlarded with wisps of gaseous condition, and some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy). — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually. — 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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“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 who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“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