Constantin Brâncuși Quotes

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

Constantin Brâncuși

There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things.

Constantin Brâncuși

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 Brâncuși

All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss.

Constantin Brâncuși

Like everything else I've ever done, there was a furious struggle to rise heavenward.

Constantin Brâncuși

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

Constantin Brâncuși

Beauty is the harmony of different contrary things. And the more difficult things are to reconcile, the greater the beauty.

Constantin Brâncuși

If the work you do is not related to the absolute necessity of evolution, it is useless and harmful.

Constantin Brâncuși

Constantin Brâncuși

Constantin Brâncuși

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Born: February 19, 1876

Died: March 16, 1957 (aged 81)

Bio: Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.

Known for:

Bird in Space (1923)
The Kiss (1910)
Mademoiselle Pogany (1913)
Sleeping Muse (1910)

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