List of Constantin Brancusi Quotes

Nothing Can Grow Under Big Trees.

Why Write [about My Art]? Why Not Just Show The Photographs?

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.

Why Talk About Sculpture When I Can Photograph It?

The Work Of Art Expresses Precisely Those Things Which Do Not Die. It Must Do So, However, In A Form That Bears Witness To The Artist's Own Era.

Simplicity Is Not An Objective In Art, But One Achieves Simplicity Despite One's Self By Entering Into The Real Sense Of Things.

Don't Look For Obscure Formulas Or Mystery In My Work. It Is Pure Joy That I Offer You. Look At My Sculptures Until You See Them. Those Closest To God Have Seen Them.

I Refused [to Study Under Rodin] Because Nothing Grows Under Large Trees.

I Do Not Aspire To Be In Fashion. For What Is In Fashion, Goes Out Of Fashion If, On The Contrary, Your Work Is Contested Today, It Doesn't Matter. For When It Is Finally Understood, It Will Be For Eternity.

In Art, One Does Not Aim For Simplicity; One Achieves It Unintentionally As One Gets Closer To The Real Meaning Of Things.

What Is Real Is Not The External Form, But The Essence Of Things.

The Function Of Art Is To Make That Understood Which In The Form Of Argument Would Be Incomprehensible.