To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. - Alexander Calder - Quotesmemo.com

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I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.

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Alexander Calder

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

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I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

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If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it. . . The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

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

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

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I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.

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