Constantin Brancusi Quotes

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

  Constantin Brancusi

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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

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

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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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• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

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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.

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• There hasn’t been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

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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 but the idea, the essence of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

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

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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.

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Constantin Brancusi (11)

Birth:	19th February, 1876
Death:	16th March, 1957
Nationality:	Romanian
Profession:	Sculptor

About

Constantin Brancusi was born in Hobița, Romania. He was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. He enrolled in the Bucharest School of Fine Arts, where he received academic training in sculpture. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain and others. But other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.

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