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Top 20 Alexander Calder Quotes (2025 Update)

Alexander Calder Quote: “The next step in sculpture is motion.”

1. “The next step in sculpture is motion.”

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Alexander Calder Quote: “Above all, art should be fun.”

2. “Above all, art should be fun.”

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Alexander Calder Quote: “I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.”

3. “I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.”

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Alexander Calder Quote: “My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.”

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

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Alexander Calder Quote: “The universe is real, but you can’t see it. You have to imagine it.”

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

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Alexander Calder Quote: “When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!”

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

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Alexander Calder Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Alexander Calder Quote: “The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.”

8. “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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Alexander Calder Quote: “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.”

9. “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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Alexander Calder Quote: “You see nature and then you try to emulate it.”

10. “You see nature and then you try to emulate it.”

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Alexander Calder Quote: “That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.”

11. “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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Alexander Calder Quote: “My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.”

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

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Alexander Calder Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder Quote: “Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.”

14. “Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.”

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Alexander Calder Quote: “The basis of everything I do is the universe.”

15. “The basis of everything I do is the universe.”

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Alexander Calder Quote: “My fingers always seem busier than my mind.”

16. “My fingers always seem busier than my mind.”

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Alexander Calder Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Alexander Calder Quote: “The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.”

18. “The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.”

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Alexander Calder Quote: “I have been making wire jewelry – and think I’ll really do something with it, eventually.”

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

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Alexander Calder Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Alexander Calder

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