Constantin Brancusi - What is real is not the ...

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

Romanian Sculptor

Born: Feb 19, 1876

Died: Mar 16, 1957

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Impossible, Imitating, Surface, Real, Essence, Essentially, Anyone, Form, Anything, Express, Things, Exterior, External

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