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I paint with shapes.
~ Alexander Calder
Paint
Shapes
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My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
~ Alexander Calder
Enormous
Everyone
Fan
Fan Mail
Mail
Six
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
~ Alexander Calder
Artist
Engineer
Enough
Good
Means
Perfect
Thing
design
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I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
~ Alexander Calder
Been
Eventually
Jewelry
Making
Really
Something
Think
Wire
design
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Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
~ Alexander Calder
Colors
Compose
Forms
Just
Motions
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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
Been
Form
Has-Been
Large
Model
Part
Rather
Sense
System
Thereof
Underlying
Universe
Work
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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
Abstraction
Always
Arrangement
Art
Entirely
Exciting
Look
Meaning
Motion
Must
Next
Next Step
Painted
Perfect
Planes
Sculpture
Spheres
Static
Step
Still
Why
Without
Would
Would-Be
You
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Alexander Calder
Profession
Sculptor
BirthDate
22 July, 1898
DeathDate
11 November, 1976
Country
United States
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