CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI QUOTES

Romanian sculptor, painter & photographer (1876-1957)

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

attributed, The History of Art

Tags: architecture


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. Well, I've tried to express just that. 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 spirits.

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

attributed, The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art


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

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

attributed, History of Art: The Western Tradition


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

Caiete Silvane


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

Jurnal American


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

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

attributed, The History of Art


When we are no longer children we are already dead.

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

Metamorphosen Plastischer Form


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

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

Brancusi - De la Maiastra la Pasare in Vazduh (II)


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

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

attributed, The History of Art