"There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real …"

"I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen some…"

"Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god."

"All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss."

"When we are no longer young we are already dead"

"Don't look for mysteries. I give you pure joy."

"Like everything else I've ever done, there was a furious struggle to rise heavenward."

"Modern industrial design has advanced at a rapid pace during the last ten years. Its successes are no longer confined…"

"Since the Gothic, European sculpture had become overgrown with moss, weeds – all sorts of surface excrescences which …"

"[Brancusi] has had more influence on my work than most architects."