32 Quotes by Alexander Calder


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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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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.

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