The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

- Constantin Brancusi

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

- Constantin Brancusi

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

- Constantin Brancusi

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

- Constantin Brancusi

Simplicity is complexity resolved

- Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

- Constantin Brancusi

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

- Constantin Brancusi

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

- Constantin Brancusi

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

- Constantin Brancusi