Simplest Forms 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.
• My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
• Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
• The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a…
• To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few,…
• The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to…
• The next step in sculpture is motion.
• My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
• The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that…
• About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).
• A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these…
• When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

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