Constantin Brâncuși quotes

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 Brâncuși)
There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things.
Constantin Brâncuși
Like everything else I've ever done, there was a furious struggle to rise heavenward.
Constantin Brâncuși
Don't look for mysteries. I give you pure joy.
Constantin Brâncuși
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brâncuși
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brâncuși
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 Brâncuși
Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.
Constantin Brâncuși
All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight - what bliss.
Constantin Brâncuși
When we are no longer young we are already dead.
Constantin Brâncuși
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 Brâncuși)
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
Constantin Brâncuși
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
Constantin Brâncuși
...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 Brâncuși
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 Brâncuși
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
Constantin Brâncuși
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Constantin Brâncuși
There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
Constantin Brâncuși