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Constantin Brancusi Art Quotes - (13 quotes)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Abstraction category:

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Abstraction category:

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Architecture category:

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Art category:

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Difficulty category:

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Imitation category:

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Joy category:

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Masters category:

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Reality category:

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Seeing category:

To see far is one thing, going there is another. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Simplicity category:

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Theory category:

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. (Constantin Brancusi)

Constantin Brancusi - From the Work category:

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. (Constantin Brancusi)

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