35 Quotes by Constantin Brancusi

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Simplicity is complexity resolved.

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

When we are no longer children we are already dead.

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.

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

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.