Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

— Constantin Brancusi

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

— Constantin Brancusi

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

— Constantin Brancusi

When we are no longer children we are already dead

— Constantin Brancusi

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.

— Constantin Brancusi