Constantin Brancusi famous quotes

03-22-2025

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Life #Beautiful #Art
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Beautiful
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
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Good Life #Patterns #Action
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Badass #Bad Ass #Sculpture
Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Life #Tree #Shade
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 #Reality
Simplicity is complexity resolved
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Simplicity #Complexity
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things,
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Real #Essence #Form
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
...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
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
I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Tree #Rodin #Study
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
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
Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Life #Ego #Doe
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
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
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Art #Would Be #Argument
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
Nothing can grow under big trees.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Tree #Bigs #Grows

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