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Things Quotes by Constantin Brancusi
- 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…
- Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
- ...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
- What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things,
- Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them
- In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
- 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…
- 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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