What did Alexander Calder mean by: To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect. - Alexander Calder Sculptor · USA Copy
+ Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Calder, Art, Color, Form, 0 - Alexander Calder Sculptor · USA
+ You see nature and then you try to emulate it. Feraz Zeid, August 14, 2023December 12, 2023, Alexander Calder, Nature, 0 - Alexander Calder Sculptor · USA
+ The basis of everything I do is the universe. Feraz Zeid, November 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Alexander Calder, Bases, Universe, 0 - Alexander Calder Sculptor · USA
+ The universe is real, but you can’t see it. You have to imagine it. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Calder, Imagine, Universe, 0 - Alexander Calder Sculptor · USA
+ The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Calder, Cosmos, Inspiration, 0 - Alexander Calder Sculptor · USA
+ About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy). Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Calder, Joy, Mind, 0 - Alexander Calder Sculptor · USA
+ My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Calder, Art, Form, Movement, 0 - Alexander Calder Sculptor · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
