Constantin Brancusi Quotes

• Simplicity is complexity resolved

  Constantin Brancusi

  Simplicity, Complexity

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• To see far is one thing, going there is another.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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

  Constantin Brancusi

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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

  Constantin Brancusi

  Mind, States, Difficult

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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.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Essence

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• Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Life, Tree, Shade

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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 its exterior surface.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Essence

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• Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Life, Ego, Doe

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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.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Simplicity

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• The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Would Be, Argument

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• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Badass, Bad Ass, Sculpture

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• Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Good Life, Patterns, Action

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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 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

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• I do not aspire to be in fashion. For what is in fashion, goes out of fashion
  If, on the contrary, your work is contested today, it doesn't matter.
  For when it is finally understood, it will be for eternity.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Fashion, Matter, Today

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• What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Real, Essence, Form

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

  Constantin Brancusi

  Tree, Rodin, Study

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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 them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Passion, Joy

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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.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Self

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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 artist's own era.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Eras, Bears

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• Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Writing, Why Not

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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 slapped my hands.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Hands, Unseen, Lines

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• Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

  Constantin Brancusi

  Sculpture, Photograph, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nothing can grow under big trees.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Tree, Bigs, Grows

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