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.
Alexander CalderRead
The next step in sculpture is motion.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of incorporating motion into sculpture, suggesting that art should not be static but rather dynamic.
Alexander Calder, known for his innovative work in sculpture, particularly mobile art, suggests that the next evolution in sculpture involves the integration of motion. This idea implies that true artistry transcends fixed forms and embodies an interactive, living aspect that engages viewers in a more profound experience. Calder's perspective has influenced how contemporary sculptures are perceived and created, inviting artists to explore movement as a vital element of their work.
Themes
SculptureMotionArtCreativityDynamic
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about modern art at a gallery, one could reference Calder's quote to highlight the evolving nature of artistic expression.
More from Alexander Calder
All quotes βWhen everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
Alexander CalderRead
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
Alexander CalderRead
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander CalderRead
Similar quotes
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.
Robert MotherwellRead
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.
Flannery O'ConnorRead
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.
Edward AbbeyRead
I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.
Beverly SillsRead