"The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity."

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Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

Alexander Calder

#Circles Quotes #Space Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.”

Source : "The Q&A: Natalie Jeremijenko, thingker". More Intelligent Life Interview, www.economist.com. September 20, 2010.
“Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.”
“Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.”
“Being busy does not always mean real work.”
“Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.”

Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.233, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible.”
“Take the regular wagon track and never leave it.”
“When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.”

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