Artist Calder Quotes

#1. Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell.

Jonathan Edwards

#2. When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Alexander Calder

#3. I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

Jose Gonzalez

#4. Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Dejan Stojanovic

#5. To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

#6. Hey, Bubu, a bottle of good French wine ... Sip it slowly, do you most good. You'll sleep. Be happy. And if you want to come downstairs, dance and sing, talk, ok. Do what you want. Here's the wine.

Charles Bukowski

#7. Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

Geena Davis

#8. Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

Pete Hamill

#9. What do you want me to do, go shout from the housetops that I am Henry Clinton and I'm here to tell you you're all wet?

Harper Lee

#10. I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

G. Gordon Liddy

#12. I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

Norman Mailer

#13. No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.

Seneca.

#14. 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 all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

Alexander Calder

#15. Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.

Jim Rohn

#16. The closest of friendships contain the mysterious spark of attraction and connection as well as drama, tension, envy, sacrifice, and love. For some, it's the highest form of love there is.

Carlin Flora