Alexander Calder Quotes

I paint with shapes.
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
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 rather large model to work from.
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.

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Alexander Calder
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Sculptor
BirthDate
22 July, 1898
DeathDate
11 November, 1976
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