Top 60 Calder Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Calder

#1. Calder kissed me in a way that made me believe I had no only always been his, but I would be his forever. In this life or any other. In his kiss was the promise that wherever he and I existed, we would belong to each other.

Mia Sheridan

#2. Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?'

Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?'

'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?'

'The kind you obey.

Joe Abercrombie

#3. Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

Horace Walpole

#4. What are you doing out there?" Lily hissed.
"Would you believe me if I said I was just passing by?"
She groaned. "You are a terrible liar, Calder White.

Anne Greenwood Brown

#5. I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.

Peggy Guggenheim

#6. It took a long moment, but Gerard finally raised his head and looked Jon in the eye. It meant that I have not been honest with you, Jon Calder, and if you are to understand the danger you are in now, I must tell you everything, no matter if you believe me or not.

Hank Edwards

#7. Perhaps Calder's secret lies in the idea that each mobile is, truly, a metaphor for the experience of living, for the interconnected movement of separate elements that make up a life. Each mobile tells us to stop, to wonder, to wonder some more, and to celebrate.

Blue Balliett

#8. I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

Charles Sheffield

#9. Calder, do you like me? And then I laughed, breaking the spell. Her eyes flashed open and blood flooded her cheeks. She pushed off, but I reached out and pulled her toward me again. That one second of physical separation was too painful a void.

Anne Greenwood Brown

#10. It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

Diane Ladd

#11. Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

Blue Balliett

#12. The thing is, Calder, it's not always a choice who you develop feelings for. You're playing with fire in more ways than one. Any fool can see the way you two look at each other.

Mia Sheridan

#13. To win the Calder Trophy means a lot. It means a lot. I don't have words. I could tell you in Russian.

Alexander Ovechkin

#14. The gods created this place for us," I whispered, smiling dreamily. Calder paused, brushing his lips once more across my throat before responding. "Yes." I felt him smile against my skin. "Why do you think they did that?" "So we'd have a place to fall in love.

Mia Sheridan

#15. The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

Owen Wilson

#16. In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

Lisa Cholodenko

#17. I think, Calder, that we have to figure out how to forgive, not for the people who wronged us, but for us.

Mia Sheridan

#18. 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 to work from.

Alexander Calder

#19. Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it

Jason Calder

#20. The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

Nigel Calder

#21. I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

Alexander Calder

#22. The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

Alexander Calder

#23. I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

Alexander Calder

#24. No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Neal Shusterman

#25. "And when you go back to your room tonight, I'll know I'm closer to you than I was yesterday, and my bed will have your smell all over it".

Mia Sheridan

#26. The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.

Alexander Calder

#27. Above all, art should be fun.

Alexander Calder

#28. I don't know why you're so hard to convince," I said, "But I'm really not that bad of a guy."
"Spoken like a true serial killer.

Anne Greenwood Brown

#29. The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

Nigel Calder

#30. The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

Alexander Calder

#31. But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.

Nigel Calder

#32. Love the ponytail," Connor says, pointing at his hair.
Lev shrugs. "It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it."
"Don't," Connor tells him. "I lied. I hate it.

Neal Shusterman

#33. 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 by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

Alexander Calder

#34. Do what you know needs to be done.

Lynda A. Calder

#35. When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

Alexander Calder

#36. 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 be poetry.

Alexander Calder

#37. 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

#38. About my method of work: first it's the state of mind - Elation (joy).

Alexander Calder

#39. these are residues of a dream world that form a historical border to the next era,

Evan Calder Williams

#40. If you have a problem with me, call me. If you don't have my number then that means you don't know me well enough to have a problem.

Eleanor Calder

#41. 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 would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

Alexander Calder

#42. The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

Nigel Calder

#43. I paint with shapes.

Alexander Calder

#44. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it ... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Alexander Calder

#45. 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

#46. My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

Alexander Calder

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

Alexander Calder

#48. Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

Nigel Calder