Quotes About Alexander Calder

#1. 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

#2. If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

Hudson Taylor

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

Alexander Calder

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

Alexander Calder

#5. There is an art to irritation that only few of us can achieve.

Gail Carriger

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

Alexander Calder

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

Alexander Calder

#8. 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

#9. A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

Thomas Moore

#10. 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

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

Alexander Calder

#12. Once I realized that it wasn't right for me, I couldn't bring myself to do it anymore. I just wanted to move on.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. 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

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

Alexander Calder

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Alexander Calder

#18. Above all, art should be fun.

Alexander Calder

#19. The basis of everything I do is the universe.

Alexander Calder

#20. Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Alexander Calder

#21. I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.

George Clooney

#22. My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

Alexander Calder

#23. My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

Alexander Calder

#24. Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection

Susan Jeffers

#25. That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

Alexander Calder

#26. You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Alexander Calder

#27. And indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision, for how can a man shake off his habits? What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying innumerable desires that he has created for himself?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

E.B. White

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

Alexander Calder

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

Alexander Calder

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. I paint with shapes.

Alexander Calder

#34. 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