Alexander Calder Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sculptor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1898 - November 11, 1976

Topics

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A lot of young people think it all comes to a screeching halt once you're 32. But it really doesn't.

Megan Mullally

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In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

Angela Merkel

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One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

Michael Connelly

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For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.

Anand Mahindra

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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Tori Amos

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I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

Tom Sturridge

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It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Roddy Doyle

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It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

Martin Scorsese

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With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

Mira Nair

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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.

Bryan Fuller

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It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.

Ashley McBryde

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From the time I started the decathlon, I've loved the event. I didn't know why. I still don't know why.

Ashton Eaton

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