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Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
Constantin Brancusi
Action
Theories
Value
There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
Constantin Brancusi
Art
Beginning
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
Self
Sense
Simplicity
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
Constantin Brancusi
Mind
State
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
Work
Idea
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
God
Work
Joy
Mystery
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi
Work
God
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
Body
Eyes
Fish
Reality
Spirit
Want
Water
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
Architecture
Sculpture