35 Quotes by Constantin Brancusi

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.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things,

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.

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.