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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

~Alexander Calder

Topics: Artist Engineer Enough Good Means Perfect Thing

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My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

~Alexander Calder

Topics: Enormous Everyone Fan Fan Mail Mail Six

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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

Topics: Abstraction Always Arrangement Art Entirely Exciting Look Meaning Motion Must Next Next Step Painted Perfect Planes Sculpture Spheres Static Step Still Why Without Would You

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I paint with shapes.

~Alexander Calder

Topics: Paint Shapes

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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

Topics: Been Form Large Model Part Rather Sense System Thereof Underlying Universe Work

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I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

~Alexander Calder

Topics: Been Eventually Jewelry Making Really Something Think Wire

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Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

~Alexander Calder

Topics: Colors Compose Forms Just Motions

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sculptor

Born: July 22nd, 1898

Died: November 11th, 1976

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