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.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

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

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

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.

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.

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