Alexander Calder Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Alexander Calder:

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
~Alexander Calder


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Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
~Alexander Calder


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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 would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.
~Alexander Calder


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My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
~Alexander Calder


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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 to work from.
~Alexander Calder


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I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
~Alexander Calder


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I paint with shapes.
~Alexander Calder


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