Stopped Unseen Quotes by Constantin Brancusi

I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone…

— Constantin Brancusi

“Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.”

— Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

— Constantin Brancusi

In fiecare zi calcam in picioare pamantul care ne hraneste si in fiecare an trecem nepasatori prin ziua mortii noastre.

— Constantin Brancusi

I do not aspire to be in fashion. For what is in fashion, goes out of fashion If, on the contrary, your work is…

— Constantin Brancusi

“I want just the flash of its spirit.”

— Constantin Brancusi

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

— Constantin Brancusi

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

— Constantin Brancusi

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

— Constantin Brancusi

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…

— Constantin Brancusi

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

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