Constantin Brancusi Quotes
Sad Quotes by Constantin Brancusi

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work.
It is pure joy that I offer you.
Look at my sculptures until you see them.
Those closest to God have seen them.
- Constantin Brancusi

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

What is real is not the external form,
but the essence of things...
it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially
real by imitating its exterior surface.
- Constantin Brancusi

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.
- Constantin Brancusi

Simplicity is not an objective in art,
but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering
into the real sense of things.
- Constantin Brancusi

Create like a god, command like a king,
work like a slave.
- Constantin Brancusi

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
- Constantin Brancusi

Theories are patterns without value.
What counts is action.
- Constantin Brancusi

To see far is one thing, going there is another.
- Constantin Brancusi

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult
is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
- 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...
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 spirit.
- Constantin Brancusi

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

The invisible and nonexistent look much alike.
- Delos B. McKown

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
Perhaps this person will never
be disappointed or disillusioned;
perhaps she won't suffer the way
people do when they have a dream to follow.
But when the person looks back -
and at some point everyone look back -
she will hear her heart, saying,
"What have you done with the miracles
that God planted in your days?
What have you done with the talents
God bestowed on you?"
- Paulo Coelho

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -
look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity,
and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus
could be intended for enjoyment.
- Soren Kierkegaard

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
- William Butler Yeats

Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

Whenever I look in the mirror,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk

I didn't want to marry anybody else in town.
I want my baby to look like you.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber

I don't have to look up my family tree,
because I know that I'm the sap.
- Fred Allen

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

I found there was only one way to look thin:
hang out with fat people.
- Rodney Dangerfield