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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
Some things must happen so that others may come to pass.
— Lynda A. Calder
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
— Alexander Calder
these are residues of a dream world that form a historical border to the next era,
— Evan Calder Williams
I paint with shapes.
— Alexander Calder
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
— Nigel Calder
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
— Alexander Calder
If you have a problem with me, call me. If you don't have my number then that means you don't know me well enough to have a problem.
— Eleanor Calder
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
— Nigel 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
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
— Peggy Guggenheim
The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.
— 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
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
— Alexander Calder
I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.
— Charles Sheffield
You are my only accomplishment.
— Brenda Joyce
Above all, art should be fun.
— Alexander Calder
That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !
— Peter Ritchie Calder
No true hero ever believes that they are one.
— Neal Shusterman
My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
— Alexander Calder
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
— 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
Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
— Peter Ritchie Calder
I'd rather lie in a hammock with you with nothing but happiness surrounding us
and be ambushed than run away. — Anne Greenwood Brown
In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.
— Lisa Cholodenko
Do what you know needs to be done.
— Lynda A. Calder
The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.
— Alexander Calder
I don't know why you're so hard to convince," I said, "But I'm really not that bad of a guy.""Spoken like a true serial killer. — Anne Greenwood Brown
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
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it
— Jason Calder
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
— Alexander Calder
Can't live in a crazy forest that's trying to kill you without a top-of-the-line stabbing stick.
— James Tynion IV
