"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract.……" — Constantin Brancusi
"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."
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Constantin Brancusi
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22 Quotes by Constantin Brancusi
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as…
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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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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
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