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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“When we are no longer young we are already dead”

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

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

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

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”