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"Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god."
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Constantin BrâncușiWhen we are no longer young we are already dead — Constantin Brâncuși
"When we are no longer young we are already dead"
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Constantin Brâncuși
Constantin Brâncuși
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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
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"All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss."
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"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."
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"[Brancusi] has had more influence on my work than most architects."
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"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."
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"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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