Constantin Brancusi Quotes
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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
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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…
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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…
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Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
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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…
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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
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To see far is one thing, going there is another.
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...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
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I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had…
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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things,
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Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them
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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
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Nothing can grow under big trees.
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In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
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Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.
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The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the…
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Simplicity is complexity resolved
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I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
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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…
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