“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no ...” — Alexander Calder Quote

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

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

I paint with shapes.

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

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.