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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

"And when you go back to your room tonight, I'll know I'm closer to you than I was yesterday, and my bed will have your smell all over it". — Mia Sheridan

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

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. — Nigel Calder

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

The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory. — Owen Wilson

I think, Calder, that we have to figure out how to forgive, not for the people who wronged us, but for us. — Mia Sheridan