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"When we are no longer young we are already dead"
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Constantin Brâncuși"Like everything else Ive ever done, there was a furious struggle to rise heavenward."
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child, he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École d
"When we are no longer young we are already dead"
"All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss."
"Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god."
"There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things."
"[Brancusi] has had more influence on my work than most architects."
"My conscious tradition is through Constantin Brâncuși, and Brâncuși just strikes me as an infinitely wiser and infinitely more talented, an infinitely stronger figure than [Marcel Duchamp|Duchamp]]. I think I could have done my work if Duchamp had not lived. I could not have done my work if Brâncuși had not lived."