Constantin Brancusi Quotes

When we are no longer children we are already dead

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

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Nothing can grow under big trees.

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.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

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

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.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

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

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Work like a slave; order like a king; create like a god.

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

I want just the flash of its spirit.