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

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

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.

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

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.