About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).

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.

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

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

Above all, art should be fun.

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

The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

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.

In order to discover who you are within, you need to attune your visionary world deep in your sub-conscience to the outward world and live it.

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.

His gaze drops to my lips. "I shouldn't do this--""You really should." And I close the distance between us.

It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.