Constantin Brancusi

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

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

— Constantin Brancusi

There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

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

Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.

— Constantin Brancusi

All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss.

— Constantin Brancusi

When we are no longer young we are already dead

— Constantin Brancusi

Don't look for mysteries. I give you pure joy.

— Constantin Brancusi

Like everything else I've ever done, there was a furious struggle to rise heavenward.

— Constantin Brancusi

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

— Constantin Brancusi

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

— Constantin Brancusi