Today we celebrate Alexander Calder’s Birthday in our own way, sharing Alexander Calder Quotes. Please enjoy and choose your favorite :)
I paint with shapes. – Alexander Calder Quotes
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six. – Alexander Calder Quotes
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect. – Alexander Calder Quotes
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. – Alexander Calder Quotes
From the beginning of my abstract work, even when it might not have seemed so, I felt there was no better model for me to choose than the Universe – Alexander Calder Quotes
When an artist explains what he is doing he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his subsequent work fit in with the explanation. – Alexander Calder Quotes
A knowledge of and sympathy with the qualities of the materials used are essential to proper treatment. – Alexander Calder Quotes
Each element can move, shift or sway back & forth in a changing relation to each of the other elements in the universe. Thus, they reveal not only isolated moments, but a physical law or variation among the elements of life. Not extractions, but abstractions. Abstractions which resemble no living things except by their manner of reacting. – Alexander Calder Quotes
With a mechanical drive you can control the thing like the choreography in a ballet and superimpose various movements.. a great number, even, by means of cams and other mechanical devices. – Alexander Calder Quotes
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. – Alexander Calder Quotes
“Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.”
