Question: Is it true that Marcel Duchamp invented the name “mobile” for your work? Duchamp named the mobiles and Arp the stabiles. Arp said, "What di… - Alexander Calder

I started [in Paris, 1920's, making toys] right away, using wire as my main material as well as working with others like string, leather, fabric and wood. Wood combined with wire (with which I could make the heads, tails and feet of animals as well as articulating parts) was almost always my medium of choice. One friend of mine suggested that I should make bodies entirely of wire, and that is how I started to make what I called 'Wire Sculpture'. In Montparnasse, I became known as the 'King of Wire'.

The aesthetic value of these objects cannot be arrived at by reasoning. Familiarization is necessary.

The various objects of the universe may be constant, at times, but their reciprocal relationships always vary.