32 Quotes by Alexander Calder

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.

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

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don’t know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

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.

I paint with shapes.