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

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.

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.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

What a cruel irony it is, that we get to choose our thoughts but not our feelings.

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.