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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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.Constantin Brancusi
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
Constantin Brancusi
Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.
Constantin Brancusi
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
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
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
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