Top 30 Brancusi Quotes
#1. Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
Charles James
#2. Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.
Patti Smith
#3. Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously - the quick ways of doing things - was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter - into yourself.
Isamu Noguchi
#4. If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's something beautiful about that.
Patti Smith
#5. 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.
Constantin Brancusi
#6. 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
#7. I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
Constantin Brancusi
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. 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 Brancusi
#12. In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
Constantin Brancusi
#13. 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
#14. Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
Constantin Brancusi
#15. The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
Constantin Brancusi
#26. 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.
Constantin Brancusi
#28. Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.
Constantin Brancusi
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