A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.