Alexander Calder Quotes
If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.
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.
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
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 work fit in with the explanation.
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.
That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.
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.
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
