Константин Бранкузи цитаты
Константин Бранкузи: Цитаты на английском языке
“Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.”
Original in Romanian:
Muncește ca un sclav, poruncește ca un rege, creează ca un zeu.
Brancusi - De la Maiastra la Pasare in Vazduh (II), Observator Cultural, 2011-03-13, Matei Stircea-Craciun http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Brancusi-de-la-Maiastra-la-Pasare-in-vazduh-(II)*articleID_18619-articles_details.html,
Original in French:
Il y a des imbéciles qui définissent mon œuvre comme abstraite, pourtant ce qu'ils qualifient d'abstrait est ce qu'il y a de plus réaliste, ce qui est réel n'est pas l'apparence mais l'idée, l'essence des choses.
Caiete Silvane magazine, 2008-11-01, Sculptura pe Internet http://www.caietesilvane.ro/indexcs.php?cmd=articol&idart=232,
Original in Romanian:
Am șlefuit materia pentru a afla linia continuă. Și când am constatat că n‑o pot afla, m‑am oprit; parcă cineva nevăzut mi‑a dat peste mâini.
Jurnal American - 21 Septembrie, altă zi la New York, Centrul Cultural Pitești, 2008-11-01, Vavila Popovici http://www.centrul-cultural-pitesti.ro/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=406,</ref>
“Like everything else I've ever done, there was a furious struggle to rise heavenward.”
Brâncuși cited in: Finley Eversole (2009) Art and Spiritual Transformation. p. 329
“All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss.”
Brâncuși cited in: Des Moines Art Center, Terry Ann R. Neff (1998) An Uncommon Vision. p. 66
“When we are no longer young we are already dead”
Attributed to Brâncuși in: Rene Dubot So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events. 1998, p. 112
“Don't look for mysteries. I give you pure joy.”
Brâncuși cited in: Horst Woldemar Janson, Anthony F. Janson (2004) History of Art: The Western Tradition.