A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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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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