I paint with shapes.

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.

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.

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

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

Above all, art should be fun.

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

The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

Italy will always have the best food.

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

I dont want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.