Constantin Brancusi

When we are no longer children we are already dead ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#fantastic #fantasy #imagination #imagination

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#make #mind #ourselves #putting #state

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

— Constantin Brancusi

#far #going #one thing #see #thing

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

#anything #essence #essentially #express #exterior

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

#formulas #god #i #joy #look

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

— Constantin Brancusi

#create #god #king #like #slave

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#inhabited #sculpture

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

— Constantin Brancusi

#counts #patterns #theories #value #without

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

— Constantin Brancusi

#art #been #beginning #hasn #just

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

#because #call #essence #exterior #idea