Alexander Calder

“To an engineer, good enough is perfect. To an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”

“The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof.”

“Above all, I feel that the chief reason for the existence of the artist is to create the stars as he sees them.”

“Why must art be static? ... The next step in sculpture is motion.”

“It's the thing that you don't see that is the most important.”

“I want to make things that are fun to look at.”

“The idea of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities... seems to me the ideal source of form.”

“I think best in wire.”

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

“My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.”