Things are not difficult to make; what i... by Constantin Brancusi | We Heart Quotes

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

- Constantin Brancusi

Other quotes by Constantin Brancusi

God Work

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

- Constantin Brancusi

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

- 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

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

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

Architecture

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

- Constantin Brancusi

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