Citations (from Working Notes)
Even beautiful but designed and therefore annoying rhythms and silhouettes are also lies, a make-up, so empty and distant.
Only pationless can have a quality of the eternal.
If there is an objective concept of "beauty" and if beautiful, in this case, should remain forever beautiful, one should create in accordance with the laws of the universe.
Not preciocity makes a work of art timeless and great, but its naked, sincere truth and purity, so simple as the earth itself, faceup opened to people.
What does this beauty of a thing consist of? Perhaps, first of all, of harmony and inner rhythm and cohesion, rationality and hidden appropriateness.
For your inner world to become valuable to others, not to yourself only, it must be humane.
In a piece of art there must be a mystery.
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