Architecture is inhabited sculpture. by Constantin Brancusi | We Heart Quotes

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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

- Constantin Brancusi

Other quotes by Constantin Brancusi

Sense Art

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

Art

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

- Constantin Brancusi

Mind

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

- Constantin Brancusi

Joy God Work

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

God Work

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

- Constantin Brancusi

Work

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

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