Theories are patterns without value. Wha... by Constantin Brancusi | We Heart Quotes

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Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

- Constantin Brancusi

Other quotes by Constantin Brancusi

God Work

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

- 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

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

Mind

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

- 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

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

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