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
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable...
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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
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Danny Kaye
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect...
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Criss Jami
Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
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Jason Mraz
More Quotes By Constantin Brancusi
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's...
In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.
I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.
When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.
People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
