The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzy...

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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

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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.

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