Constantin Brancusi

I do not aspire to be in fashion. For what is in fashion, goes out of fashion _x000D_ If, on the contrary, your work is contested today, it doesn't matter. _x000D_ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

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.