Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
More Quotes from Constantin Brancusi:
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
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
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
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
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