Beauty & Fragility

“We civilisations now know that we are mortal. We feel that a civilisation has the same fragility as a life.”

“As a remedy to life in society, I suggest the big city: it is the only desert within our reach.”

“There is, properly speaking, only one beauty here below: the beauty of the world. All other beauties are reflections of it.”

“Harmony can only be born of doubt and conflict. And is there any greater conflict than the one between nature and civilisation, dream and reality?”

“Remember that all the wonders you study are the work of many generations…”

“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.”

“The triumph of art is to lead to something other than itself.”