Alexander Calder

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, a painting, a sculpture, a structure. It's something that has been done. It's finished. It's dead. I want to make things that are alive.

I like to make things that are not fixed, that move, that are alive.

My work is an experiment in space, in time, in movement, in balance, in weight, in color, in form, in light, in shadow.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is the only thing that has no end.

I want to make things that are not fixed, that move, that are alive. I want to make things that are not static, that are not dead.

I think best in wire.

I have always been interested in the way things move.

I like to play with things. I like to make things move.

I want to make things that are alive, that move, that are not static, that are not dead.

I like to make things that are not fixed, that move, that are alive. I want to make things that are not static, that are not dead.

Above all, art has to be fun.

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

My whole theory of design is really based on proportion.

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made up of carefully balanced parts in motion.

The basis of my work is the relation between the heavy and the light.

I have no fear of change. I have no fear of the unknown.

To know what you're doing, you must know what you're not doing.

I paint with shapes.

The universe is real, but it has no meaning unless we give it one.

Mobiles should be looked at from all angles.