Romanian sculptor, painter & photographer (1876-1957)
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I've tried to express just that. If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirits.
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attributed, The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
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attributed, The History of Art
Don't look for mysteries. I give you pure joy.
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attributed, History of Art: The Western Tradition
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.
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Caiete Silvane
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.
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Jurnal American
There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
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attributed, The History of Art
Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.
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Brancusi - De la Maiastra la Pasare in Vazduh (II)
When we are no longer children we are already dead.
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Metamorphosen Plastischer Form
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
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attributed, The History of Art