Alexander Calder Quotes
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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 is a rather large model…
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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 a few, though, it may…
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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 what to do with it…
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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 is that the idea of…
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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 of these elements move, propelled…
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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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The basis of everything I do is the universe.
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The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It…
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Above all, art should be fun.
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That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.
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I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.
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The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.
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