35 Quotes by Constantin Brancusi

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.

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

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.

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

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Nothing can grow under big trees.

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.

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

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.