“Imagination’s Chamber”

The Artist's Studio

Constanin Brancusi’s studio at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Photo: Centre Georges Pompidou.

For the studio is the scene of the crime, obsessively committed, day after day. It is not only the laboratory, the alchemic kitchen, but the arena in which images are achieved or fail. It is the recess of vision, the shell of the artist’s mind: imagination’s chamber.¹

— Michael Peppiatt and Alice Bellony-Rewald, Imagination’s Chamber: Artists and their Studios.