Alexander Calder Quotes

• Por encima de todo, el arte debe ser divertido.

  Alexander Calder

  Art, Fun, Scrapbooking

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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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  Real, Space, Imagine

  Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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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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  Joy, Pieces, Surprise

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

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  Art, Color, Form

  Eric Zafran, Alexander Calder, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Cynthia E. Roman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (2000). “Calder in Connecticut”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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

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  Real, Imagine, Universe

  Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), Alexander Calder (1974). “Alexander Calder: a retrospective exhibition. Work from 1925 to 1974”

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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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  Arte, Conmoción, Personas

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• ¿Por qué el arte debe ser estático? Miras una abstracción, esculpida o pintada, una disposición totalmente excitante de planos, esferas, núcleos, totalmente sin sentido. Sería perfecto, pero siempre está inmóvil. El siguiente paso en la escultura es el movimiento.

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  Art, Perfect, Next Steps

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• Sobre mi método de trabajo: primero es el estado de ánimo-Elación (alegría).

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  Joy, Mind, Elation

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• Para un ingeniero, lo suficientemente bueno significa perfecto. Para un artista, lo perfecto no existe.

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  Art, Mean, Perfect

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• Me gusta tanto el rojo que casi quiero pintarlo todo de rojo.

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  Color, Want, Red

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• The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

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  Inspiration, Cosmos, Firsts

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• The basis of everything I do is the universe.

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  Bases, Universe

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• My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

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  Fans, Mail, Six

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• Toda mi teoría sobre el arte es la disparidad que existe entre forma, masa y movimiento.

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  Art, Movement, Form

  Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• 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.

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  Success, Cutting, Artist

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• Las formas más simples del universo son la esfera y el círculo. Las represento mediante discos y luego las varío... esferas de diferentes tamaños, densidades, colores y volúmenes, flotando en el espacio, atravesando nubes, rocíos de agua, corrientes de aire, viscosidades y olores... de la mayor variedad y disparidad.

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  Clouds, Air, Circles

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

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  Nature, Trying, Emulate

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• 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.

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  Artist, Two, Fit

  Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura

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• My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

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  Art, Mind, Fingers

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• El siguiente paso en la escultura es el movimiento.

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  Next Steps, Sculpture, Next

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

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  Long, Sculpture, Elements

  "Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture". August, 1933.

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• 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.

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  Moving, Electric Motors, Hands

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• That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

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  Long, Mind, Seems

  Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura

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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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  Art, Form, Models

  Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), Alexander Calder (1974). “Alexander Calder: a retrospective exhibition. Work from 1925 to 1974”

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• I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

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  Thinking, Wire, Jewelry

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