What is real is not the external form, b... by Constantin Brancusi

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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.

- 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

Eyes Water Body Want

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.

- Constantin Brancusi

Art

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

- 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

God Work

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

- 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

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