The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

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.

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

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

I don't say things to be offensive I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.