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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
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
— Alexander Calder
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
— Alexander Calder
I paint with shapes.
— Alexander Calder
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
— Alexander Calder
I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.
— Alexander Calder
That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.
— Alexander Calder
If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different ... I'd rather be completely fucking mental.
— Angelina Jolie
I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.
— Keith Stanfield
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
— Alexander Calder
My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
— Alexander Calder
Above all, art should be fun.
— Alexander Calder
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
The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.
— Alexander Calder
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
We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.
— Lavinia Greenlaw
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
— Alexander Calder
I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.
— Michael Longley
The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.
— Alexander Calder
I love restaurants from top to bottom.
— Tom Douglas
You see nature and then you try to emulate it.
— Alexander Calder
About my method of work: first it's the state of mind - Elation (joy).
— Alexander Calder
The basis of everything I do is the universe.
— Alexander Calder
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
— Alexander Calder