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.
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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
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
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Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
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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.
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To see far is one thing, going there is another.
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