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Alexander Calder (Sculptor)

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
— Alexander Calder art
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
— Alexander Calder
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 art
I paint with shapes.
— Alexander Calder pain
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 art
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
— Alexander Calder
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
— Alexander Calder think
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, theres no such thing as perfect.
— Alexander Calder art

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